Southern Comfort

About Southern Comfort

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.

Southern Comfort is a 1981 thriller war film directed by Walter Hill. Its themes are soldier, rescue, violence, and wilderness.

Keith Carradine appears as Spencer, Powers Boothe as Hardin, Fred Ward as Reece, and Franklyn Seales as Simms. At 106 minutes long, it arrived in September 1981.

The screenplay is by David Giler and Michael Kane. It was produced by 20th Century Fox, Cinema Group Ventures, and Phoenix (II). American members can watch it on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV.

The Revenant, Battle Royale, and Bone Tomahawk make useful companions to Southern Comfort, all filed under gore, murder, and survival. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 375 votes and it carries a R rating.