DVD Features:
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: February 29, 2000
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Universal Studios
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Dual Layer
- Collectors Edition
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 4.1 - English
- Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - French
- Additional Release Material:
- Cast and Filmmakers Bios
- Feature Commentary with Director Sydney Pollack
- Song of Africa
- Trailers: Theatrical
- Universal Web Links
- Text/Photo Galleries:
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Kurt Luedtke
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Cinematography: David Watkin
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Director: Sydney Pollack
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Original Score: John Barry
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Picture
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Sound
Entertainment Reviews:
New York Times - 12/18/1985
"...[Streep creates] a Karen Blixen of such intelligence, intensity and obsessiveness that you can believe she would one day...write the cool, dark, bewitching prose..."
Variety - 12/11/1985
"...A sensitive, enveloping romantic tragedy..."
Empire - 03/01/2011
4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is perfectly played all round."
Product Description:
Adapted from Isak Dinesen's novel, OUT OF AFRICA, this film plaintively tells the story of two troubled adults who meet and fall in love in the African wilderness. Karen Blixen-Flecke (Meryl Streep) is a modern woman, caught in the shortcomings of a practical marriage. Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) is a gallant British hunter, lonely, but unable to commit. As they two meet and begin a torrid affair, they set out on an epic adventure in the badlands of Africa--an adventure that real-life Karen Blixen-Flecke would later novelize under the pen name Isak Dinesen.
Sydney Pollack's opus, OUT OF AFRICA, is a full, visually compelling film. Its storyline evokes a plethora of emotions, ranging from fear and loathing to hope and the elation of love. Robert Redford and Meryl Streep are electric as the two damaged infidels in love. A key American film, OUT OF AFRICA is not to be missed.
Plot Keywords:
Adventure |
Africa |
Character Study |
Essential Cinema |
Love Story |
Period Piece |
Recommended |
Romance |
Romances |
Theatrical Release |
True Story |
Wilderness
Production Notes:
- Theatrical release: February 21, 1986.
- Filmed on location in Kenya and Northeast England.
- The book OUT OF AFRICA is Danish writer Isak Dinesen's (her real name was Karen Blixen) account of her life in British East Africa from 1913 to 1931.
- "He even took the gramophone on safari. Three rifles, supplies for a month, and Mozart."--Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep)
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