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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 68153
Released: September 21, 1999 |
| Our Price: $38.94 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This remake of Neil Simon's 1970 comedy finds Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin as Ohio yokels cast adrift in Rudy Giuliani's sanitized New York City. With their son recently departed for Britain, the empty-nesters travel to the Big Apple for a job interview and are beset with all kinds of bad luck, starting with their flight being rerouted to Boston. Things only go downhill from there, of course, as they're mugged by an Andrew Lloyd Webber imposter, the high-tech multilingual navigation system on their rented Cadillac goes haywire, and their hotel reservations fall through. Though this movie is marred by some out-of-place slapstick and mawkish romance scenes, it's not without its funny moments. The couple stumbles into a sexual-addiction encounter group and has to try to back out gracefully (not succeeding very well, of course). John Cleese is howlingly funny as he reprises his Fawlty Towers role of a cross-dressing hotelier, and Martin has a great drug-delirium scene, in which he's slipped a hit of LSD in jail (thinking it's aspirin). Just try not to think in terms of comparisons to Neil Simon's original and this remake works fairly well. --Jerry Renshaw
The Out-Of-Towners Reviews:
The Out-Of-Towners 
2009-05-21 - Have watched this several times & have enjoyed watching this each & every time on TV so I bought it. If you love Steve Martin & Goldie Hawn you will love this movie.
Much better than Housesitter! 
2009-04-21 - It sounds like most people who complain about this are either hardcore fans of the original or they prefer another brand of comedy altogether. Well I haven't seen the original, and I generally do not like most Hollywood comedies myself whether it be sex-related humor, teen-oriented, romantic-based or something starring one male Hollywood heavyweight that leans more toward the physical and over the top. But I thought this was great fun and totally watchable! I've enjoyed Goldie in other comedies like Death Becomes Her and The First Wives Club and Steve Martin was great in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and they are both in top form here too. I did not care for the other Martin/Hawn film Housesitter and think that this was a much better fit for the two. It's an entertaining flick about all the things that can go wrong when a middle-aged Ohio couple venture to New York after the kids are grown-up and moved out. It's definitely not as bad as others have made it out to be. While I don't classify it as one of my favorite comedies like Clue, National Lampoon's Vacation or Adventures in Babysitting, it is still worth having in my collection for a lazy Saturday afternoon of simple enjoyment.
A predictable comedy disaster movie 
2009-01-10 - A transvestite hotel manager and an aging advertising man
come together in a movie about big city decay?
With muggers, with robbers , with police that call taking a piss "exposure", you have to believe that New York is about the most unfriendly city in the world? Some people have thought the Arabs terrorist had it right:
New York should burn down? The actors are very good and they would make
just about any disaster funny,
but a city that is this hostile to outsiders is just xenophobic and
not a great city that should be loved. New York sucks big time in this movie.
a good old-fashioned comedy
2008-12-07 - Put Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin together and you're gonna have a barrel of laughter. *Out-of-Towners* is hilarious as Goldie and Steve play an older couple checking out NYC for a possible relocation.
However, things go haywire from the moment they get on a flight to NYC. They end up in Boston but eventually making their way to NYC. Their hotel reservation falls through. Their finances is a disaster. So, they got to survive NYC until the job interview. And NYC, while it is a fun city, can be tough to survive.
The things they'll do for food cracked me up. They got so desperate that they found themselves in a "Sex Anonymous" meeting.
Hilarious! And if you like this film, then you should check out *Housesitter*, where they team up again.
SAM WEISMAN, OPUS 4
2008-02-12 - *** 1999. Directed by Sam Weisman. When I read that the estimated budget of this film is $40,000,000, I wonder where all the money went. I suppose Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn and John Cleese were well paid but, still, I'm sure there was some money left. I really don't understand why this enhanced stage play cost so much. Anyway, my kids loved the movie, my wife and I laughed two or three times and that's about it. In short, enjoyable but already forgotten.
