Rancho Deluxe

It is a pseudo-western, featuring actors who would now be too "good" for a small cultish movie like this one. Can you picture a Law & Order T.V. star in this?? This could be viewed as a great piece of 70's era B movie making with slumming A list actors. Or how about one of Jimmy Buffet's first appearances in popular culture- a must see for parrot heads!

Listen for the one liners from Cecil (Sam Waterson), they could definately enter into your movie quote lexicon. Also, if you know any cowboys, watch it with them and check out their reaction to Cecil's Father's monolouge about the disease of "pickup truck debt" for which there is still "no cure in sight".

Not likley to please everyone, this movie is for people with a twisted sense of humor but if you like stuff like Space Ghost you will love.


the west- like it or leave us alone   February 11, 2005
Karen A. Lebens (diablo)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

I'm one of the people who has seen this movie numerous times and loves it. I first watched it with a friend who grew up around the Crazy Mts and knew exactly what was being shown. I guess if you don't know the rural west and have no sense of humor beyond the Adam Sandler fart joke level this will not be a movie for you but if you appreciate nuanced acting, great locations and a natural story flow you will enjoy it.


McGuane in the background   February 1, 2000
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

This is a movie that last time in terms of its humor. I watch it about once a year just to remind myself just how great it is. It is a dry, strange sense of humor, but if you like Tom McGuane, author of 92 in the Shade and The Sporting Club (two other good movies)and that crazy early seventies counter-culture long hair humor, you'll laugh when things get "down right romantic" with a sharps buffalo rifle. Look for the McGuane cameo during the Jimmy Buffett "Livingston Saturday Night"...