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Deliverance
Four Atlanta businessmen Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake go on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. Their seemly casual trip eventually turns into a fight for survival.
21 August 1938, South Carolina, USA
26 September 1925, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 January 1938, USA
20 May 1918, USA
11 February 1936, Lansing, Michigan, USA
12 September 1931, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
30 December 1932, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
2 February 1923, Buckhead, Georgia, USA
17 November 1937, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
6 July 1932, Elbert County, Georgia, USA
1956
6 July 1937, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
29 December 1938, Yonkers, New York, USA
23 July 1938, Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA
December 24, 2014
...an underwhelming adaptation of an underwhelming book.
July 13, 2012
This powerful adaptation of James Dickey's best-selling novel finds director John Boorman establishing a sense of menace almost from the start, and the "squeal like a pig" sequence continues to haunt viewers even decades after the fact.
October 23, 2004
A fantasy about violence, not a realistic consideration of it.
August 24, 2008
A sad, brilliant reminder that sometimes people are the most threatening monsters of all.
November 08, 2016
Classic '70s adventure has brutal, disturbing violence.
July 03, 2012
Boorman's interpretation of the material resulted in an American cinematic classic built not only on shock and awe, but emotional subtlety. [Blu-ray]
September 18, 2007
John Boorman's 1972 film of the James Dickey novel has a beautiful visual style that balances the film's machismo message.
August 19, 2014
Boorman's film still speaks to us in profound ways, as if to indicate hidden wisdom has long rested in frames glossed up by a once-shocking philosophy.
May 20, 2003
So many of Dickey's lumpy narrative ideas remain in his screenplay that John Boorman's screen version becomes a lot less interesting than it has any right to be.
September 18, 2007
It's the stuff of which slapdash oaters and crime programmers are made but the obvious ambitions of Deliverance are supposed to be on a higher plane.
August 24, 2008
Each of the four lead performances is exceptional, none more so than Burt Reynolds' beefy, supercilious Lewis.
January 26, 2006
It's a haunting, nightmarish vision.