The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition)
starring: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi
directed by: Roland Joffé
directed by: Roland Joffé
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790775586
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790775581
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Running Time: 126 minutes
Sales Rank: 1839
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 1986
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Editorial Review:
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Rodrigo Mendoza (ROBERT DE NIRO) was a violent soldier-for-hire in 1750s South America. Now he is a man of peace serving the Rain Forest Indians he once enslaved. But armies of Spain and Portugal threaten the lifestyle and safety of the native peoples. Now Rodrigo may have to pick up his sword and musket once again. From the producer of Chariots of Fire and the director of The Killing Fields comes a powerful epic co-starring JEREMY IRONS and graced with dazzling Academy Award-winning cinematography, set to a memorable music score and scripted by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of A Man for All Seasons and Doctor Zhivago.
Amazon.com:
Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) directs this fuzzy effort at a David Lean-like epic without David Lean's sense of emotional proportion. Lean's most important screenwriting collaborator, Robert Bolt, in fact wrote The Mission, which concerns a Jesuit missionary (Jeremy Irons) who establishes a church in the hostile jungles of Brazil and then finds his work threatened by greed and political forces among his superiors. Robert De Niro is briefly effective as a callous soldier who kills his own brother and then turns to Irons's character to oversee his penance and conversion to the clergy. The narrative and dramatic forces at work in this movie should be more stirring and powerful than they are--the problem being that Joffé is too removed from them to allow us in. --Tom Keogh
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- powerful movieThe Mission gives the viewer a look into the exploitation of South America by Europeans. A missionary ... Read More
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- The MissionI watched The Mission in a class that I'm currently taking about the Literature of Human Rights in Latin ... Read More
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- The MissionThis movie is probably my all time favorite. I have watched it over and over again. The music is thrilling, ... Read More
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- Worth watching on so many levelsSo much has been written about The Mission and it has received so many plaudits, that it is redundant to re ... Read More
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- Panoramic Morality TaleI was interested in seeing "The Mission" when it first came out. I didn't realize that it would take over 20 ... Read More
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