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Southern Comfort

1981 · R · 1h 46m

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

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.

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Release & where to watch

In theaters: September 24, 1981

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