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Deliverance
Deliverance
Actors: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Ed Ramey
Director: John Boorman
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
R     2004     1hr 50min

A TERRIFYING EXPLORATION OF MAN'S ALIENATION FROM NATURE, BASED ON JAMES DICKY'S NOVEL. FOUR MEN, TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM IT ALL GET MORE THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR WHEN THEY TAKE A CANOE TRIP.
     
     

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Actors: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Ed Ramey
Director: John Boorman
Creators: Vilmos Zsigmond, John Boorman, Tom Priestley, James Dickey
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Sub-Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Studio: Warner Home Video
Format: DVD - Color,Full Screen,Widescreen,Anamorphic - Closed-captioned
DVD Release Date: 06/01/2004
Original Release Date: 07/30/1972
Theatrical Release Date: 07/30/1972
Release Year: 2004
Run Time: 1hr 50min
Screens: Color,Full Screen,Widescreen,Anamorphic
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 1
Members Wishing: 0
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Languages: English, French
Subtitles: English, French
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Member Movie Reviews

K. K. (GAMER)
Reviewed on 2/11/2024...
This had some rough spots but is considered a classic!
Robert M. from DURAND, IL
Reviewed on 3/21/2014...
Saw the movie when it first came out in the theater years ago. Watching it this time was a little more shocking than the fist time. Good movie a lot of good actors just a good moviie
1 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Deidra C. (Deidra670) from GARRETT, KY
Reviewed on 1/3/2011...
DELIVERANCE is amazing. Nearly forty years have passed and it still packs a powerful punch to the gut. Could this movie be made today? In spite of the "torture porn" style that seems to be the current trend of horror, I really don't think so. In this era of political correctness, the vicious sexual assault would probably never see the light of day.

Ed, Drew, Bobby and Lewis have headed into the Georgia mountains for an adventure and a bit of male bonding, but what they find is a descent into terror. Ed and Bobby become separated from the others and are brutally assaulted by two of the most heinous mountain men to ever grace the screen. Interrupting the rape, Lewis kills one of the attackers, unfortunately giving the other man a chance to escape.

And then the movie really begins to shine. The characters evolve and go in directions that you won't see coming. The pace is nothing short of break neck speed and by the end of the film, you'll truly be breathless.

DELIVERANCE is a classic that should be required viewing by anyone with directorial aspirations. Don't miss it. This is a piece of cinematic history that is to be savored.

Just don't forget your life jacket.
5 of 5 member(s) found this review helpful.
John S. (Videophile) from STATE COLLEGE, PA
Reviewed on 12/28/2010...
Excellent flick. A group of friends go out for a weekend canoeing trip when things unexpectedly go horribly wrong. Director John Boorman really puts viewers in the middle of the film. You'll be asking yourself "what would I do?" through most of the movie. Totally engrossing.
2 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful.

Movie Reviews

They don't make 'em like they used to...
P. I. Johnson | Cape Town, South Africa | 04/06/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Director John Boorman's exciting, brutal, brooding, explosive and violent masterpiece remains one of Hollywood's most intelligent takes on the complex, contradictory cultures of American manhood, otherwise the more familiar preserve of directors like Sam Peckinpah and Walter Hill. Based on James Dickey's novel, Deliverance roots itself assuredly in fascinating and provocative dualities: liberal modernity and backwoods barbarism; beauty and violence; kindness and cuelty; morality and pragmatism and, atmospherically, the existential and the visceral - situating it a distinct cut above the average Hollywood action adventure output. Four suburban friends - career-best performances from Reynolds, Voight, Beatty and Cox - take one last alpha-male shot at canoeing the mighty Cahulawassee river - just as it is set to be flooded - literally and figuratively - by the needs, culture and infastructure of the New South as it rolls unforgivingly through what's left of the countryside.Just as their own middle class tensions, arrogances and irritations begin to surface, they run - courtesy of the hostile local population - into a world much smaller(...). What starts out as an egoistic attempt to reclaim some element of American frontier manhood amidst the privileged, cosseted reality of an otherwise safely suburban life becomes a gripping struggle to survive the ravages of nature and (distinctly warped) nurture. Features what is probably the silver screen's most notorious male rape scene, an episode that slides so quickly and unsuspectingly from cautious negotiation to gruelling and humiliating cruelty that it still retains the power to shock and unsettle. Possibly did more than any other movie to forever demonise the poor-white population of the Appalachians, spawning a slew of inferior copycats as well as the opportunistic "hillbilly horror" sub-genre that persisted into the early 80s with such exploitation nonsense as Hillbilly Holocaust and Trapped. Walter Hill's differently brlliant Southern Comfort, Jonathan Mostow's efficient suspenser Breakdown and Curtis Hanson's The River Wild can be argued to be among Deliverance's more palatable latter-day spawn. (In the latter, Meryl Streep shows that otherwise meek women - pushed to the limit - can be just as primal given a reason and a river!) Deliverance is a superior film that harks back to the days when a thoughtful Hollywood film and a crowd-pleasing box office smash were - more often than not - one and the same thing."
A classic thriller has been remastered and loaded with extra
calvinnme | 06/14/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This DVD is the 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the film. One of the great things about Deliverance is that, even though it is an adventure filmed in the 1970's, it has managed to not age like a 70's film. It is both depressing and edge-of-your-seat suspenseful at the same time. The four leads do a tremendous job of playing the parts of urban dwellers who want a weekend of adventure in the wilds of Georgia and wind up getting far more than they bargained for. It has much to say about what it takes to make a man uncivilized and whether or not there is a bit of savagery in all of us, despite how domesticated we may be in predictable situations. Past these observation I won't rehash the plot elements since just about everybody on earth knows the details, and if you don't I won't spoil it for you. The film is newly remastered and will have many special features which include:

Commentary by John Boorman - Director Boorman discusses the adventures, the team, the controversy and everything it took to make Deliverance a classic film.

Deliverance: The Beginning - Take a historical look at the novel and its adaptation to the screen.

Deliverance: The Journey - Along from the early stages of filming to the creation of classic moments, such as the Dueling Banjos scene.

Deliverance: Betraying the River - The making of one of the most controversial and ground-breaking sequences in film history.

Deliverance: Delivered - A reflective look back on the completion of the film, its impact and how the idea for the shocking ending came to be.

The Dangerous World of Deliverance - The original behind-the-scenes documentary on the difficult conditions and challenges of making this film. This is on the 2004 release also.

Theatrical Trailer

This information comes from a press release by Warner Home Video. I have the 2004 release of this DVD, and quite frankly it looks fine now. I guess the primary reason to upgrade would be for all the extra features and the commentary, which are all new with the exception of "The Dangerous World of Deliverance", which was on the 2004 version of the DVD."
What REALLY happened on the Cahulawassee River?
Erik North | San Gabriel, CA USA | 10/19/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"When it comes to fictional survival stories, few can approach the sheer grueling brutality of DELIVERANCE. Brilliantly adapted by James Dickey from his best-selling book and superbly directed by John Boorman (POINT BLANK, HOPE AND GLORY), this is a tremendous endeavor. So much so that horror writer Stephen King and Boorman's fellow director Stanley Kubrick both expressed a tremendous admiration of it.As pretty much everyone knows, DELIVERANCE focuses on four Atlanta businessmen (Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox) who decide to take a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee River in the Appalachian Mountains of northern Georgia before it is dammed up into a lake. It is apparent, however, that the local folk don't take kindly to these "city boys" messing around in their woods. And when Voight and Beatty are sexually assaulted at gunpoint by a pair of sadistic rednecks (Bill McKinney, Herbert "Cowboy" Coward), in the infamous "SQUEAL!!" segment, what began as a canoe trip explodes into a nightmare.Much is made, and justifiably so, not only of the "SQUEAL" scene but also of the "Dueling Banjos" part, between Cox and a retarted mountain kid. But DELIVERANCE has much more to offer besides these moments. Like A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and STRAW DOGS, it offers a hard-hitting and unflinching look at Man's penchant for violent and (arguably) abhorrent behavior. The four leads are extremely good in their roles, and McKinney and Coward make for two of the more frightening and vicious villains in screen history. Dickey appears in the film's final reel as a local sheriff who, as he puts it would "kinda like to see this town die peaceful."Shot totally on location, and featuring ominous cinematography from the legendary Vilmos Zsigmond, DELIVERANCE is a great and frightening piece--arguably a modern gothic horror film, certainly a great action film with an undercurrent as sinister as the Cahulawassee River itself. It is not to be missed,"