Deliverance (1972)
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Product Details: Deliverance (1972)
- Edition:
- DVD Deluxe Edition. See other editions
- MPAA Rating:
- R
- Release Date:
- 09/18/2007
- UPC:
- 085391165125
- Directed by:
- John Boorman
- Featuring:
- Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty. See all cast
Synopsis: Deliverance (1972)
Synopis: 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!"Features: Deliverance (1972)
Features: DVD Features:Widescreen - 2.40
Audio:
Dolby Surround 5.1 English
Mono 1. French
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User Reviews: Deliverance
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Terrific and powerful thriller
, September 3, 1999Reviewer: arydalazen - See all arydalazen's reviews -
regionally authentic thriller
, March 19, 2000Reviewer: fcot_2000 - See all fcot_2000's reviewsTHE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL BY JAMES DICKEY. TRANSLATED INTO A GRIPPING AND REGIONALLY ACCURATE TALE OF RAPE MURDER AND DESPERATION--ALL SET IN THE NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS!
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The calm and slow beginning all of a sudden gives place to a second act when Ed (Jon Voight) and Bobby (Ned Beatty) take the front of the river and disembark in a small track. Then comes the most horrofying moment: Ed and Bobby meet two hillbillies and start a discussion. Ed tries to talk with the men but just worsen the things.And Bobby ends up being raped under gun point. When the mountain men get ready to attack Ed, Lewis (Burt Reynolds, who gives the movie's outstanding performance. He is terrific in the role that was refused by Marlon Brando) witnesses the scene and kills one of the homosexuals with his bow-and-arrow, but the other gets to escape. This explosive and dramatic moment (the rape scene is extremely unpleasant and gruesome, for its realism and for the explicit way in which Boorman filmed everything - this moment was shot just once, and the film maker used nine cameras to capture everything) is just an announcement for what is coming: in the middle of the forest's darkness with the evil watching them, the four friends need to decide what to do: hide the body, go after the other and kill him, so they can erase any crime evidence and they may escape from the authorities or tell the whole truth to the justice, taking the risk that resides in a possible trial. Nervous, oppressive and tense - this primitive court is the best scenes and is as scary (if not scarier) as The Blair Witch Project.When you see Ned Beatty's eyes in the previous seconds of the rape you remember the part in which Heather Donahue starts to crye for the camera and asks for forgiveness, they have a hunted animal's stare.
Excessively violent,but terrifying realistic and dramatic, Deliverance is a classic that revitalized the suspense gender. When Boorman's film was released, the movies' industry was making important progresses in the form of telling a horror story.Deliverance made its own progresses. ...