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Winter Kills
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DVD Features:
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Color
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Anchor Bay Entertainment
- 2-Disc Set
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox - 1.85
Disc 1: Feature Presentation
- Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
- Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary: William Reichert - Director
- Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Access
Disc 2: Supplementary Material
- Additional Release Material:
- Featurette:
- WHO KILLED WINTER KILLS'
- REUNION
- STAR STORIES
- Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Access
- Text/Photo Galleries:
- Production Art
- Poster Art
- Stills/Photos:
- Deleted Scenes
- Behind the Scenes
- DVD-ROM Features:
- Screenplay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Jeff Bridges, John Huston & Anthony Perkins | |
| Performer: | Eli Wallach, Sterling Hayden, Dorothy Malone, Tomas Milian, Belinda Bauer, Ralph Meeker, Toshirô Mifune, Richard Boone, David Spielberg, Brad Dexter & Joe Spinell | |
| Directed by | William Richert | |
| Edited by | David Bretherton | |
| Screenwriting by | William Richert | |
| Original story by | Richard Condon | |
| Composition by | Maurice Jarre | |
| Produced by | Fred Caruso | |
| Director of Photography: | Vilmos Zsigmond |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/4 --
Though it garnered little attention in theaters, it has become a cult favorite on video.
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TV Guide
...It's an elaborate, even phantasmagoric charade...
Sight and Sound
Winter Kills boasts some exceptional acting by John Huston and Anthony Perkins and Dorothy Malone.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 4/5 --
As an absurdist take on conspiracy thrillers, it's close to brilliant -- assuming you get the joke, which audiences don't seem to have in 1979.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
...An exceptionally clean look thanks to Vilmos Zsigmond's sparkling camerawork, and a fine supporting cast...
Variety
Huston gives a powerhouse performance, and Bridges, always likeable, runs through his repertoire of facial expressions and grimaces, but it's a lost cause.
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Variety
Rating: 4/5 --
A real cult classic, this reimagining of the Kennedy assassination asks what might have gone down in an alternate and very similar universe.
Filmcritic.com
Product Description:
Jeff Bridges stars in this film as Nick Kegan, the younger brother of a President shot down 19 years earlier, who sets out to discover the truth behind the assassination in this unlikely black comedy. Nick's wealthy father, played by John Huston, and his father's bizarre staff are both help and hindrance with the oddball survivors of the era Nick meets in his quest.
Keywords:
Action
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Black Comedy
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Mystery
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Politics
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Assassination
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Theatrical Release
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Conspiracies
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Conspiracy Theories
Production Notes:
- Theatrical Release: May 11, 1979.
- Elizabeth Taylor has a cameo role as the late President's procuress that is omitted from the credits. Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography was highly praised.
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