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The Deer Hunter [HD DVD]

starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep
directed by: Michael Cimino

: The Deer Hunter [HD DVD]
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: HD DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
EAN: 0025193131027
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: MCA/Universal Home Video
Manufacturer: MCA/Universal Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MCA/Universal Home Video
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Running Time: 184 minutes
Sales Rank: 2551
Studio: MCA/Universal Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 23, 1979



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Description:
Winner of 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Michael Cimino) and Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken), this critically acclaimed, extraordinarily powerful film tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Robert De Niro gives an outstanding performance as Michael, the natural leader of the group. The Deer Hunter is a searing drama of friendship and courage - and what happens to these qualities under hardship. It is a shattering emotional experience you will never forget.

Amazon.com:
Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, The Deer Hunter is simultaneously an audacious directorial conceit and one of the greatest films ever made about friendship and the personal impact of war. Like Apocalypse Now, it's hardly a conventional battle film--the soldier's experience was handled with greater authenticity in Platoon--but its depiction of war on an intimate scale packs a devastatingly dramatic punch. Director Michael Cimino may be manipulating our emotions with masterful skill, but he does it in a way that stirs the soul and pinches our collective nerves with graphic, high-intensity scenes of men under life-threatening duress. Although Russian-roulette gambling games were not a common occurrence during the Vietnam war, they're used here as a metaphor for the futility of the war itself. To the viewer, they become unforgettably intense rites of passage for the best friends--Pennsylvania steelworkers played by Robert De Niro, John Savage, and Oscar winner Christopher Walken--who may survive or perish during their tour through a tropical landscape of hell. Back home, their loved ones must cope with the war's domestic impact, and in doing so they allow The Deer Hunter to achieve a rare combination of epic storytelling and intimate, heart-rending drama. --Jeff Shannon



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A SENSITIVE AND DISTRESSING PIECE ABOUT VIETNAM
The Deer Hunter
A close-knit group of American mill - workers are suddenly thrust into war, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - YOu can never go back home
The Deer Hunter home scenes was filmed were I have worked for the last 35years,Mingo Jct, Ohio.I even ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Sad To Say, It's Lacking
This is one of those movies that SHOULD have worked so well, and comes so close. The best way for me ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - One of my wife favorites
My wife top five movies.I was not very crazy about it.Once again it tried to make fools out of us and ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Good But Too Long!
I just couldn't get into this because of the length. As noted dozens of times, the wedding scene was ... Read More

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