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Genres:
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Adventure /
Drama /
Thriller
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Director:
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John Boorman
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Actors:
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Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward,
Johnny Popwell,
Ed Ramey,
Billy Redden,
Randall Deal,
Lewis Crone,
Ken Keener,
John Fowler,
Kathy Rickman,
Jon Voight,
Burt Reynolds,
Ned Beatty,
Ronny Cox,
Seamon Glass,
Bill McKinney
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Duration:
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105 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)97
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Plot Summary:
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Conductor John Boorman's adaptation of James Dickey's crush-selling untried stars Burt Reynolds as the hypermasculine Lewis Medlock. Obsessed with Hemingway-vintage notions about achieving exactly masculinity nearby challenging nature, Lewis cajoles three of his friends, Bobby Trippe (Ned Beatty), Drew Ballinger (Ronny Cox), and Ed Gentry (Jon Voight), into joining him on a ashen-mineral water canoe trip down an uncharted river in the Appalachians, although just Ed has had any be like endure. The locals that Lewis hires to propel their cars downstream warn him hither the difficulty of the jour... ney, but this only makes him more eager to start. The broad daylight goes smoothly as the men learn how to branch the rapids, and all are exhilarated. On the duplicate date, Ed and Bobby become separated from the other two and reach the landing spotlight ahead of them. Two hillbillies swiftly arrive from the forest and make up one's mind to stick up the two men at gunpoint as the trip begins its sad downward spiral. Reynolds has one of the best roles of his profession in this compelling meditation on the costs of masculine automatic; the covering boasts a superb cast as warm-heartedly as the subtle camerawork of the excellent Vilmos Zsigmond.
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Great Banjo's of Fire
I just got this out again. Hadn't seen it for about ten years and had forgotten much of it. Sure, the vivid and horrific 'Squeal like a pig' scene had stuck with me, but others like the terrific 'Duelling Banjo' scene at the beginning had not. And i'd forgotten how Reynolds's macho man is forced to take a back seat and let Voights scared (and more relatable) everyman take over hero. This is Boorman's finest film, a work of a director at the top of his game, and a highly original story that'll scare people out of taking a trip off the beaten path in redneck middle America. A frank, honest and disturbing tale of a canoe trip gone very wrong, with a kickarse banjo soundtrack.
Deliverance
To see this movie is to understand not only the plot lines of many popular movies being currently produced, (such as Cabin fever); but also to understand many spoof references that crop up in everything from the Simpsons to Tarantino. The cast is interesting, Burt Reynolds, Jon Voigt and Ned Beatty and young given that it is over 30 year since this movie was produced (Burt Reynolds looks somewhat camper than usual). It is a disturbing look at the choices we make under pressure and you question what you would do in the all to real scenario depicted. Hearing the Banjo will never be the same
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