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Written by James M. Tate / 8/17/2018 / No comments / annie mcenroe , buddy , comedy , eighties , jerry reed , john goodman , joseph carberry , kristen vigard , michael ritchie , robin williams , walter matthau

WALTER MATTHAU AND ROBIN WILLIAMS STAR IN 'THE SURVIVORS'

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In THE SURVIVORS,  Robin Williams and Walter Matthau make a pretty good team. And while this comedy isn't hilarious, it's very entertaining...<br>
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The first half, anyway, where both unlucky losers lose their income... one his fancy job, the other his grungy gas station... and deal with a string of things-go-wrong-situations highlighted by a greasy spoon diner robbery that just might've inspired Quentin Tarantino's PULP FICTION: Cut to another familiar scene where Robin Williams, in the passenger's side of Matthau's car, points a safety-off handgun at the film's edgy third-tier character, a sitting duck (albeit not a vulnerable one) in the back seat who's a plot in itself: Jerry Reed plays the diner's holdup man who also claims to be a hired assassin and wants the only witness... Matthau... dead... or so he says...<br>

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WALTER MATTHAU AND ROBIN WILLIAMS STAR IN 'THE SURVIVORS'

Title card for Michael Ritchie's THE SURVIVORS Year: 1983 In THE SURVIVORS, Robin Williams and Walter Matthau make a pretty good te...

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