The Out-of-Towners

The Out-of-Towners

1970 · 98 min · EN · G · 6.8 (112 votes)
Dir. Arthur Hiller · Starring Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron, Anne Meara, Robert Nichols, Ann Prentiss · Music Quincy Jones

When they take you for an out-of-towner, they really take you.

Comedy

George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.

VIBE

A disorienting, anxious plunge into urban anonymity. The city swallows you whole, a chaotic, darkly comedic descent into existential dread. It feels like being lost in a foreign land, even when you're supposed to be home.

anxiousdisorientedchaoticdarkly comedicsteadycharacter-driven comedyslice-of-lifegritty realismmid-century malaisedisplacementurban alienationexistential dreadloss of control
new york cityairporttravel
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