Southern Comfort

Thriller, War

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Walter Hill

Status Released

Release Date 1981-09-24

Storyline

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.

"It's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong there."