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The Year of Living Dangerously

starring: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr
directed by: Peter Weir

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790744285
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790744287
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 06, 2000
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 6880
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 1983



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Guy hamilton is a journalist on his first job as a foreign correspondent. His apparently humdrum assignment to indonesia soon turns hot as president sukarno electrifies the populace and frightens foreign powers. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Mel Gibson Sigourney Weaver Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Peter Weir

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Australian director Peter Weir had made several excellent films before The Year of Living Dangerously was released to critical acclaim in 1983, but it was this moody tale of romance and political upheaval that bought Weir and star Mel Gibson their tickets to Hollywood. (Weir's next film was the 1985 Harrison Ford hit Witness.) Set in Indonesia in 1965, the film focuses on a group of Caucasian journalists and photographers who are in Jakarta to cover the political upheavals that are threatening to collapse the unstable government of President Sukarno. Gibson plays an Australian correspondent named Guy Hamilton who's determined to get the best story, and he's given invaluable assistance from Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt), a half-Indonesian, half-Australian photojournalist who knows the culture inside and out. Billy introduces Guy to Jill (Sigourney Weaver) and their romance develops in an atmosphere of political unrest and constant personal danger. This journalistic adventure is compelling in itself (and Hunt's gender-switching performance won her a much-deserved Oscar), but it's Weir's creation of a rich, authentically exotic locale that gives the movie its alluring and subtly mysterious atmosphere. A tale of tragedy and survival, it's also a story about fascinating people at a turbulent juncture of history, and the empathy they feel for each other and the culture that surrounds them. --Jeff Shannon



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A piece of history coming to life!
Having lived in Asia for almost two decades and having traveled extensively in Indonesia I found this ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Absolutely great story of youth, commitment, integrity, and politics
This is one of my all-time favorite films. I recall seeing this as a student of international relations, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Impressed
I was worried, but it turned out to be a great movie. Arguably one of Mel Gibson's better performances.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The Year of Living Dangerously
Based on the book by C.J.(Christopher) Koch who studied with Wallace Stegner at Stanford's creative writing ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The amazing Linda Hunt
Different from Mad Max and all the rest of Gibson's apocolyptic movies, "The Year of Living Dangerously" is ... Read More

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