1983·Action·1h 43m
7.1
★
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
central intelligence agency (cia)
fight
summer residence
kgb
arrow
tv reporter
family
meeting
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Cast
Rutger Hauer
John Tanner
John Hurt
Lawrence Fassett
Craig T. Nelson
Bernard Osterman
Dennis Hopper
Richard Tremayne
Chris Sarandon
Joseph Cardone
Meg Foster
Ali Tanner
Helen Shaver
Virginia Tremayne
Cassie Yates
Betty Cardone
Sandy McPeak
Walter Stennings
Burt Lancaster
Maxwell Danforth
Cheryl Carter
Marcia Heller
Anne Haney
Honeymoon Bride
Crew
Sam Peckinpah
Director
Lalo Schifrin
Original Music Composer
Guy Collins
Executive Producer
Robert Ludlum
Novel
Scott Wilder
Stunts
Norman Howell
Stunts
Steve M. Davison
Stunts
Popular Reviews
12 reviews
yakovPRO
5.0★ · 01/31/26
I don't hate it, it's kind of dull but has some interesting themes. The editing is weird at times. Maybe watching the director's cut would make me appreciate it more
I don't hate it, it's kind of dull but has some interesting themes. The editing is weird at times. Maybe watching the director's cut would make me appreciate it more
sophiaPRO
8.0★ · 08/10/23
i think i liked the book better but i felt the changes that were made to make it a movie were still good
i think i liked the book better but i felt the changes that were made to make it a movie were still good
va24mar
7.0★ · 09/02/22
1983 | Sam Peckinpah | Rutger Hauer | John Hurt | Craig T. Nelson | Chris Sarandon | Dennis Hopper
Peckinpah’s last film is one of his most underrated ones! I went in not expecting too much, based on the largely moderate or negative reviews, but I was positively surprised.
The film’s got an all star cast with a lot of great actors delivering their A game and very well playing off each other. There is some good Peckinpah-style action, some nice twists and turns, the film is well made and looks and feels great. The two ‘Face to Face’ sequences in particular were very convincing and I enjoyed the films criticism of media and television. There is some good tension and the plot constantly kept me intrigued and interested.
The reason most don’t like this film definitely is it’s plot. Not because the plot is bad, but because it is incredibly messy. Especially in its second half, the film is very disjointed and confused. The film spins a web of betrayal, lies and opaque motivations and intentions and if you tell that story in a disjointed and messy way, the film becomes hard to follow in some moments. But in the end, it’s not too hard to follow the films plot, if you pay attention and suspend your disbelief.
Weather the reason for that problem is studio interference, Peckinpah once again being fired and not being able to complete his cut of the film or just general problems in storytelling, it’s not a problem for me. I didn’t mind the disjointed and confused plot. The film worked good enough and I wasn’t bother by its problems.
Ultimately, “The Osterman Weekend” probably is one of my favorite Peckinpah films. It’s not his best work, but a severely underappreciated late career outing and in my opinion a nice end of his great filmography.
Still, I would have loved to see a version of this film with a less disjointed and more coherent plot.
Peckinpah’s last film is one of his most underrated ones! I went in not expecting too much, based on the largely moderate or negative reviews, but I was positively surprised.
The film’s got an all star cast with a lot of great actors delivering their A game and very well playing off each other. There is some good Peckinpah-style action, some nice twists and turns, the film is well made and looks and feels great. The two ‘Face to Face’ sequences in particular were very convincing and I enjoyed the films criticism of media and television. There is some good tension and the plot constantly kept me intrigued and interested.
The reason most don’t like this film definitely is it’s plot. Not because the plot is bad, but because it is incredibly messy. Especially in its second half, the film is very disjointed and confused. The film spins a web of betrayal, lies and opaque motivations and intentions and if you tell that story in a disjointed and messy way, the film becomes hard to follow in some moments. But in the end, it’s not too hard to follow the films plot, if you pay attention and suspend your disbelief.
Weather the reason for that problem is studio interference, Peckinpah once again being fired and not being able to complete his cut of the film or just general problems in storytelling, it’s not a problem for me. I didn’t mind the disjointed and confused plot. The film worked good enough and I wasn’t bother by its problems.
Ultimately, “The Osterman Weekend” probably is one of my favorite Peckinpah films. It’s not his best work, but a severely underappreciated late career outing and in my opinion a nice end of his great filmography.
Still, I would have loved to see a version of this film with a less disjointed and more coherent plot.
1983 | Sam Peckinpah | Rutger Hauer | John Hurt | Craig T. Nelson | Chris Sarandon | Dennis Hopper
Peckinpah’s last film is one of his most underrated ones! I went in not expecting too much, based on the largely moderate or negative reviews, but I was positively surprised.
The film’s got an all star cast with a lot of great actors delivering their A game and very well playing off each other. There is some good Peckinpah-style action, some nice twists and turns, the film is well made and looks and feels great. The two ‘Face to Face’ sequences in particular were very convincing and I enjoyed the films criticism of media and television. There is some good tension and the plot constantly kept me intrigued and interested.
The reason most don’t like this film definitely is it’s plot. Not because the plot is bad, but because it is incredibly messy. Especially in its second half, the film is very disjointed and confused. The film spins a web of betrayal, lies and opaque motivations and intentions and if you tell that story in a disjointed and messy way, the film becomes hard to follow in some moments. But in the end, it’s not too hard to follow the films plot, if you pay attention and suspend your disbelief.
Weather the reason for that problem is studio interference, Peckinpah once again being fired and not being able to complete his cut of the film or just general problems in storytelling, it’s not a problem for me. I didn’t mind the disjointed and confused plot. The film worked good enough and I wasn’t bother by its problems.
Ultimately, “The Osterman Weekend” probably is one of my favorite Peckinpah films. It’s not his best work, but a severely underappreciated late career outing and in my opinion a nice end of his great filmography.
Still, I would have loved to see a version of this film with a less disjointed and more coherent plot.
Peckinpah’s last film is one of his most underrated ones! I went in not expecting too much, based on the largely moderate or negative reviews, but I was positively surprised.
The film’s got an all star cast with a lot of great actors delivering their A game and very well playing off each other. There is some good Peckinpah-style action, some nice twists and turns, the film is well made and looks and feels great. The two ‘Face to Face’ sequences in particular were very convincing and I enjoyed the films criticism of media and television. There is some good tension and the plot constantly kept me intrigued and interested.
The reason most don’t like this film definitely is it’s plot. Not because the plot is bad, but because it is incredibly messy. Especially in its second half, the film is very disjointed and confused. The film spins a web of betrayal, lies and opaque motivations and intentions and if you tell that story in a disjointed and messy way, the film becomes hard to follow in some moments. But in the end, it’s not too hard to follow the films plot, if you pay attention and suspend your disbelief.
Weather the reason for that problem is studio interference, Peckinpah once again being fired and not being able to complete his cut of the film or just general problems in storytelling, it’s not a problem for me. I didn’t mind the disjointed and confused plot. The film worked good enough and I wasn’t bother by its problems.
Ultimately, “The Osterman Weekend” probably is one of my favorite Peckinpah films. It’s not his best work, but a severely underappreciated late career outing and in my opinion a nice end of his great filmography.
Still, I would have loved to see a version of this film with a less disjointed and more coherent plot.
jamblo
4.0★ · 07/11/22
Well, it’s a bit of a hot mess, isn’t it?
The plot is so wildly convoluted that it eventually gets completely lost in the shuffle (and winds up being about something other than what it started out as), Hauer, Hurt, Foster, & Nelson are all good (well, good enough) but almost everyone else seems either massively outclassed or is just phoning it in, many of the non-action scenes look (and sound) like episodes of an early 80s comedy-drama tv show (the music is especially ill-suited to its task), there is loads of nudity almost all of which is bizarrely staged, and the action scenes are of the variety where no matter the amount of high-tech weaponry, no one can hit anything, and the slow motion shots are punctuated by slowed down Cookie Monster-esque growling.
I’ve no idea if Peckinpah’s original cut improves things, makes things weirder, or is just as bad albeit in a different way, but what’s here is really not very good.
The plot is so wildly convoluted that it eventually gets completely lost in the shuffle (and winds up being about something other than what it started out as), Hauer, Hurt, Foster, & Nelson are all good (well, good enough) but almost everyone else seems either massively outclassed or is just phoning it in, many of the non-action scenes look (and sound) like episodes of an early 80s comedy-drama tv show (the music is especially ill-suited to its task), there is loads of nudity almost all of which is bizarrely staged, and the action scenes are of the variety where no matter the amount of high-tech weaponry, no one can hit anything, and the slow motion shots are punctuated by slowed down Cookie Monster-esque growling.
I’ve no idea if Peckinpah’s original cut improves things, makes things weirder, or is just as bad albeit in a different way, but what’s here is really not very good.
Well, it’s a bit of a hot mess, isn’t it?
The plot is so wildly convoluted that it eventually gets completely lost in the shuffle (and winds up being about something other than what it started out as), Hauer, Hurt, Foster, & Nelson are all good (well, good enough) but almost everyone else seems either massively outclassed or is just phoning it in, many of the non-action scenes look (and sound) like episodes of an early 80s comedy-drama tv show (the music is especially ill-suited to its task), there is loads of nudity almost all of which is bizarrely staged, and the action scenes are of the variety where no matter the amount of high-tech weaponry, no one can hit anything, and the slow motion shots are punctuated by slowed down Cookie Monster-esque growling.
I’ve no idea if Peckinpah’s original cut improves things, makes things weirder, or is just as bad albeit in a different way, but what’s here is really not very good.
The plot is so wildly convoluted that it eventually gets completely lost in the shuffle (and winds up being about something other than what it started out as), Hauer, Hurt, Foster, & Nelson are all good (well, good enough) but almost everyone else seems either massively outclassed or is just phoning it in, many of the non-action scenes look (and sound) like episodes of an early 80s comedy-drama tv show (the music is especially ill-suited to its task), there is loads of nudity almost all of which is bizarrely staged, and the action scenes are of the variety where no matter the amount of high-tech weaponry, no one can hit anything, and the slow motion shots are punctuated by slowed down Cookie Monster-esque growling.
I’ve no idea if Peckinpah’s original cut improves things, makes things weirder, or is just as bad albeit in a different way, but what’s here is really not very good.
sunscreenbae
9.0★ · 05/27/20
felt like this was made for me lol. paranoid political thriller with bursts of violence. wildly ambient screen(ed violence) theory
felt like this was made for me lol. paranoid political thriller with bursts of violence. wildly ambient screen(ed violence) theory