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Rutger Hauer (Actor), John Hurt (Actor), Sam Peckinpah (Director) Rated:

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Format	NTSC, Closed-captioned, Anamorphic, Color, Widescreen, Dolby, Multiple Formats
Contributor	Christopher Starr, Guy Collins, Craig T. Nelson, Helen Shaver, Alan Sharp, John Hurt, Don Guest, Dennis Hopper, Cheryl Carter, Ian Masters, Chris Sarandon, E.C. Monell, Meg Foster, Rutger Hauer, Cassie Yates, Larry Jones, Robert Ludlum, Sam Peckinpah, Burt Lancaster, Sandy McPeak See more
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Runtime	1 hour and 43 minutes

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A CIA agent sets a trap for a talk-show host's shady friends. Director Sam Peckinpah's final film.

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Sam Peckinpah's final film has a lot to recommend it, including a complicated story derived from a Robert Ludlum novel but laced with Peckinpah's hard questions about loyalty and the balance between civilization and basic instincts. Rutger Hauer stars as John Tanner, a television host with strong criticisms of America's cold-war conduct. Looking forward to a weekend of socializing with old friends (played by Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, and Chris Sarandon), Tanner is approached by a CIA agent (John Hurt) who tells him his friends may be Soviet agents. Tanner agrees to let the spy agency set up surveillance in his house; it turns out there is more to the agent's claims than meets the eye and Tanner's weekend eventually erupts into violence. Osterman is not Peckinpah at his best (though, typically, the director was under siege from production politics), but the maestro of montage certainly worked in some extraordinary action sequences. --Tom Keogh

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 6.4 ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Sam Peckinpah
Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Closed-captioned, Anamorphic, Color, Widescreen, Dolby, Multiple Formats
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 43 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 23, 2004
Actors ‏ : ‎ Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Spanish, French
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
Producers ‏ : ‎ Don Guest, E.C. Monell, Guy Collins, Larry Jones
Language ‏ : ‎ English (DTS ES 6.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Starz / Anchor Bay
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00012FX4K
Writers ‏ : ‎ Alan Sharp, Ian Masters, Robert Ludlum
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2022

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Awesome seller. Where we did have a hiccup with the mailing/Post office he did a great job at getting back to me. The item was as described. if I saw an item by this seller i would buy from them again

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Excellent Casting

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2022

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I liked the whole movie and the casting is top notch. You won't be disappointed when you watch it.

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Classic drama/thriller

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2013

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Rutger Hauer in his early years.

Movie was well written and is a sought after movie by many of my friends.
Made in the era where cgi was NOT the main concern but the plot and character development was crucial factors.
This film gets played repeatedly at my place during weekends when friends want classic films and fed up with modern day cgi junk.

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"Truth is a lie that hasn't been found out."

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2009

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After the disasterous CONVOY Sam Peckinpah was given by Panzer and Davis (producers of HIGHLANDER) another chance in the big leagues. After CONVOY his only work was second unit direction of his mentor Don Siegel's JINXED. After OSTERMAN his only work would be on Julian Lennon videos. A sad climax to a career that had so much promise and, in the end, was sabotaged by Peckinpah himself. OSTERMAN is a cautionary tale of surveillance. In the Anchor Bay documentary people claim this was the first. Not actually true. Forerunners can easily be seen in Sidney Lumet's THE ANDERSON TAPES and Francis Ford Coppala's THE CONVERSATION. Nonetheless, this is an effective thriller. Good work by Hauer and company, Lalo Schfrin's understated score and the editing of Edward Ohman(?). In the end, as happened to him before, the film was taken away from Sam because of stubborness and a hatred of the powers that be. His career would have had more great movies and his life longer ... but then he wouldn't have been Sam Peckinpah. Extras include a very illumating doc called ALPHA OMEGA about the making of the film and interviews with the participants and his first preview cut. It is rough and easy to see by the opeming sex sequence why everyone was horrified. Still, this is a better fitting end to his career than if it had ended five years earlier with CONVOY. For Peckinpah there is what is there to see on celluliod and a thought of, if this man had more control of himself and his life, what might have been. Still, no one was better at slow-motion carnage than Sam. It's not RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY or THE WILD BUNCH. It probably belongs on the same level as THE GETAWAY or THE KILLER ELITE. Still, this man's failures are one helluva lot more interesting some other men's success's.

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Mark D. Cappelletty

... no complaints with the movie itself (which isn't particularly great, but it's still Peckinpah)

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2015

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I have no complaints with the movie itself (which isn't particularly great, but it's still Peckinpah). My beef is with the horrendous transfer, which, in addition to terrible amounts of Digital Noise Reduction (DNR) and Edge-Enhancement, has tremendous color issues. Most of the film is layered with an unnatural blue/purple tint that makes the characters look like Violet Beauregarde from WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. It doesn't just change from scene to scene but often from shot to shot. It's such an egregious error that I can't believe no one at Anchor Bay noticed this— the truth is that they probably didn't care. This may be the most insulting Blu-Ray transfer I've ever seen.

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Good movie

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2019

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Just a good old classic movie from the 80s. Good plot. Future stars.. of course the dialogue is kinda cheap In spots. But a good movie

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John

Shaky Disjointed Editing and Uneven Pacing Obscures Story Clarity

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2015

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The studio re-editing for the theatrical release did significant damage to this film. It comes across as a patchwork of scenes strung together in linear sequence without much to tie the scenes together. It's as if the movie were spliced together with duct tape using surviving scenes after some cataclysm destroyed a sizable percentage of the original filming. It also created inconsistent pacing with the story moving unevenly in fits and starts. While it's supposed to be a mystery spy thriller with an unexpected, substantial and very surprising twist (that I won't spoil), the result of this editing is fogged story clarity that should have drawn the viewer into this. It's not difficult to understand why audiences were confused when it was originally released theatrically. I concur with Roger Ebert's basic "What's this film about?" question that expresses frustrated confusion in his original one-star review. As I understand it, the original director's cut first scene didn't go well with test audiences with its length and psychedelic dream-like effect overlay, causing walk-outs before the scene was finished. If there's a flaw in the director's cut, it's not the effects used in the opening scene, or its purpose. It's the length of it combined with no clue whatsoever about what's happening. It could have been much better scripted.

Principal acting is excellent, and Burt Lancaster's powerful delivery is reminiscent of his commanding "Seven Days in May" role. The flaws are not with the actors. A number of scenes come across as gratuitously containing sexual acts, nudity and foul language without contributing much, if anything, to character development or the story arc. I'm no prude and have a number of films containing significant scenes with nudity, sex acts, lewd dialog and cursing, to include Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut", Oplev's "Dragon Tattoo" trilogy (aka Millennium Trilogy; the original Swedish films), Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs", and Peckinpah's earlier "Straw Dogs". In each of these, the nudity, sex, violence and extremely coarse dialog contributed something meaningful to developing the characters or the story. In this film, most of the nudity and sex scenes seem little more than gratuitous voyeurism contributing little, if anything, to the characters or the plot. There's not much cursing. Some of it seems natural for the situation. At other times the language is inappropriate and out of place for the characters and scenes in which it occurs. It's as if substantial portions of the "R" content were gratuitously inserted to attract audience.

Overall, there was much potential for an excellent thriller, with a very heavy plot twist at the end and a few additional surprises. Peckinpah's directorial swan song could have had the power of The Wild Bunch or Straw Dogs. Unfortunately it's dragged down by incohesiveness. An enigmatic opening, inconsistent pacing, poor editing that doesn't tie the scenes together very well, and gratuitous sex that distracts from the story, produces a film lucky to get 3 stars from me. I'd like to give it 4 or 4-1/2 but simply cannot and I'm disappointed.

The original Peckinpah cut is included in the 2 DVD set on the 2nd DVD and was transferred to DVD from a VHS video tape containing the only known copy of it. Started to watch it, but the quality was so low that I quickly switched to the studio edited main feature without getting past the first scene. I may eventually watch it, but not at this time. Peckinpah aficionados and purists will appreciate its inclusion, and unfortunately it's NOT included in the very recently released Blu-ray (IOW, keep the DVDs if you buy the Blu-ray).

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Islandgirl

Good movie

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2021

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Really liked story and Rutger.

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Easy transaction Thank You!

Reviewed in Canada on February 18, 2021

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Buon film

Reviewed in Italy on April 9, 2020

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Buon film d'azione

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Israel Gómez Oropeza

Impecable pelicula!!!

Reviewed in Mexico on October 28, 2017

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Uni de los últimos trabajos de San Peckinpha, cuenta con actuaciones de Burt Lancaster, Rutger Hauer, Dennis Hopper, trae subtítulos en español, la recomiendo ampliamente.

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Paul

A Maverick's Final

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 13, 2017

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Legendary Maverick Director Sam Peckinpah's Final Film The Osterman Weekend is a Tense rather complex Thriller featuring Three close friends who just might be enemy agents. based on The best selling Novel The movie boasts an interesting cast list including The late John Hurt, Rutger Hauer, and Hollywood veteran's Burt Lancaster & Dennis Hopper. Peckinpah Had an unusual choice for his female lead in The shape of Meg Foster an actress usually associated with TV having Guest starred on some of TVs classic series Though Foster is more Notable for her piercing blue eyes.in This movie Though you buy her has she is seen as a sort of female Rambo shooting crossbows before succumbing To The Damsel in distress status Towards The end of The movie. Osterman is a different Sam Peckinpah movie we Don't get to see The slow motion violence associated with a Peckinpah movie like The Wild Bunch or The Getaway However The Osterman Weekend is a fitting movie in all departments for The legendary Director To bow out with. The Blu-ray comes complete with an absorbing 78 min Documentary on The making of The movie almost as long as The film itself with contributions from The likes of Meg Foster The Theatrical Trailer rounds out The package. onto The Blu-ray itself I have To admit it's not The best Blu-ray Transfer I have seen Osterman includes a lot of darkly lit scenes including The movies climax which Tends To bring out a lot of grain even when we are introduced To Daylight scenes The movie still can look darkly. However I would not let this put you off I suspect it is still a vast improvement over any DVD release of The film. The movie comes in a rather flimsy Dust jacket mine was pretty beat up when I received it I was However able To Transfer The Disc into a spare Dust jacket I had and it looks fine. if you are ordering maybe just have a spare Dust jacket on hand Despite The problems it's still a five star release.

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Reviewed in Japan on June 5, 2018

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英語とスペイン語？のみのバージョンでした。こちらの確認不足ですね。皆さまはご注意を。

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