Out Cold

1989

Comedy / Drama / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 31% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 31% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 1086 1.1K

infidelity love triangle dark comedy hunting trip private investigator frozen body

Director

Malcolm Mowbray Photo
Malcolm Mowbray

Top cast

Randy Quaid Photo
Randy Quaid as Lester
James Lashly Photo
James Lashly as Cop #1
Fran Ryan Photo
Fran Ryan as Arlene
Marvin J. McIntyre Photo
Marvin J. McIntyre as Hunter #2
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845.35 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 1
1.53 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by henry8-3 5 / 10

Out Cold

The marriage of idle unfaithful butcher Ernie (Bruce McGill) and his equally unfaithful wife Sunny (Teri Garr) is on the rocks and Sunny hires a PI Lester Atlas (Randy Quaid) to get enough evidence so she can divorce him. When Ernie and his hard working partner Dave (John Lithgow) argue and Dave hits him whilst he's in the fridge. Next day he finds Ernie frozen / dead and assumes it was because of him. In fact, Sunny went to the butchers and deliberately locked him in. Inevitably though things get rather more complicated than everyone intended.Enjoyable but lightweight dark comedy centred around Garr's need to bump everyone off to cover her crime, with Lithgow in best sweet natured paranoid maniacal mode and Quaid also fun as the idiot PI. Quite amusing in places particularly in the third act with the best laughs borne from Ernie being frozen solid throughout and the fun Dave has forever moving bodies. Not bad, but forgettable.
Reviewed by vchimpanzee

Silly and dark farce; it got better as time passed

Ernie and Dave were butchers in the army (during the opening credits photos of them in their uniforms, along with Sunny, are shown). They open their own butcher shop, and Ernie is married to Sunny. Ernie is abusive, and Sunny is cheating on him. And the door to the freezer in the butcher shop keeps closing and locking when someone is inside.John Lithgow is at his best playing nervous characters who panic over every little thing. Of course, in this movie his character has plenty of reason to be nervous, and it doesn't help that Sunny is hiding some very important information from him. Teri Garr is not only good-looking but comes across as quite calm and pretty much in control. Randy Quaid is quite goofy as the detective Sunny hires to help her divorce Ernie. Like Dave, the detective also thinks he knows something that we know isn't true, and the results can be quite funny.This wasn't all that great at first, but as the situations got sillier, I was really enjoying it. I've seen better movies like this, but this was pretty good.
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