Stars: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Mark McKinney, John Cleese, Oliver Hudson

Director: Sam Weisman

Summary: A remake of Simon's 1970 comedy, in which a couple visit New York City for a job interview and find themselves in a spiralling series of disastrous situations.

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Neil Simon's curious comedy The Out-of-Townersconcerns a pair of non-New Yorkers (Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis) having a hellish visit to the Big Apple on the eve of a job interview for Lemmon's character. Made in 1970 and directed by Arthur (Love Story) Hiller, this hectic film almost seems ahead of its time when compared to more recent misery-piled-on-misery comedies such as Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. The couple in this film endure everything that can go wrong on a trip, including being forced to spend the night in a mugger-happy Central Park. The strange element in Simon's script, though, is that Lemmon's character is so unpleasant. A middle-class, uptight guy who can't believe that New Yorkers in the service profession don't perform their jobs slavishly, he's kind of a one-note joke that quickly wears thin. It was remade with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn in 1999. --Tom Keogh

Aspect Ratio:	1.78 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Arabic, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1999
Release Date:	March 5, 2001
Runtime:	87 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P H E 8060
Keywords:	Out, Comedy, General, Wide, Screen, Towners
Genre:	Comedy