Deliverance R
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DVD Features:
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 18, 2007
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Warner Home Video
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 2.39
- Audio:
- Dolby Surround 5.1 English
- Mono 1. French
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty & Ronny Cox | |
Performer: | Ed O'Neill | |
Featured: | James Dickey | |
Directed by | John Boorman | |
Edited by | Tom Priestley | |
Screenwriting by | James Dickey | |
Composition by | Eric Weissberg | |
Art Direction by | Fred Harpman | |
Story by | James Dickey | |
Produced by | John Boorman | |
Director of Photography: | Vilmos Zsigmond |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Sometimes you gotta lose yourself before you can find anything."
- Lewis Medlock (Burt Reynolds)
Entertainment Reviews:
...[Its] genre's one true masterpiece....DELIVERANCE intends to stir both soul and conscience... -- Rating: A+
Entertainment Weekly
John Boorman's 1972 film of the James Dickey novel has a beautiful visual style that balances the film's machismo message.
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Chicago Reader
...profoundly distasteful.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
A fantasy about violence, not a realistic consideration of it.
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Chicago Sun-Times
5 stars out of 5 -- It's a story that explores an interesting moral grey line, and as such this survivalist tale has never dated.
Ultimate DVD
3.5 stars out of 4 -- Vilmos Zsigmond's canoeing catastrophe remains hypnotic...
USA Today
The movie casts a spell through images both ugly and beautiful, and other sounds, none of them really reflecting the idea of "nature in harmony." All here is dissonance, and the best one can do is find a thread of consolation within.
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Product Description:
Director John Boorman's harrowing adaptation of James Dickey's best-selling novel is a nightmarish descent into backwoods Americana. When four unsuspecting urbanites head into the mountains of northern Georgia for a weekend canoe trip, they have no idea what's in store for them. The group's macho leader, Lewis Medlock (Burt Reynolds), is driven by Hemingway-esque notions of man's ability to conquer nature, while his three friends--Bobby Trippe (Ned Beatty), Drew Ballinger (Ronny Cox), and Ed Gentry (Jon Voight)--aren't so sure. As the men begin to navigate their way down the precarious rapids, they discover that nature isn't the only one out to get them. The eventual appearance of two menacing hillbillies turns the vacation into an all-out nightmare.
Photographed by the great Vilmos Zsigmond (MCCABE & MRS. MILLER, THE DEER HUNTER), DELIVERANCE is a compelling meditation on the dangers of masculine ritual. Reynolds dives headlong into the role that would make him a superstar, as does Beatty, whose legendary big-screen debut will never be forgotten. Boorman's thriller made two other lasting contributions to the pop-culture lexicon: the dueling-banjos sequence and the infamous line, "Squeal like a pig!"
Photographed by the great Vilmos Zsigmond (MCCABE & MRS. MILLER, THE DEER HUNTER), DELIVERANCE is a compelling meditation on the dangers of masculine ritual. Reynolds dives headlong into the role that would make him a superstar, as does Beatty, whose legendary big-screen debut will never be forgotten. Boorman's thriller made two other lasting contributions to the pop-culture lexicon: the dueling-banjos sequence and the infamous line, "Squeal like a pig!"
Plot Synopsis:
Based on James Dickey's novel, this harrowing film tells the story of an ill-fated canoe trip in deep backwoods America, where some of the natives are as scary as the country is beautiful. The film spawned the hit song "Dueling Banjos."
Keywords:
Adventure
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Friends
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Classic
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Wilderness
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Rape
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Murder
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Recommended
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Disturbing
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
Production Notes:
- Theatrical release: July 7, 1972
- Shot on location in Rabun County and Tallulah Gorge, Georgia, and South Carolina.
- Burt Reynolds helped good buddy Ned Beatty land the rather unfortunate part of Bobby.
- Both writer James Dickey and Boorman's son, Charley, have cameos.
- In the true spirit of 1970s Hollywood cinema, Boorman had the actors perform their own stunts.
- James Dickey won the National Book Award for his poetry in 1965. DELIVERANCE was his first novel. It was published in 1970.
- The National Board of Review named the film one of their "Ten Best Films of 1972."
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- Sales Rank: 6,809
- UPC: 085391165125
- Shipping Weight: 0.15/lbs (approx)
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