The Deer Hunter (1978) Michael Cimino @ Regal Harbour View Stadium 16
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This thing won 5 Academy Awards, so I'm thinking this is Michael Cimino's good movie.
RUNTIME: 183 minutes
RATED: R
SYNOPSIS: In 1968, Michael (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken) and Steven (John Savage), lifelong friends from a working-class Pennsylvania steel town, prepare to ship out overseas following Steven's elaborate wedding and one final group hunting trip. In Vietnam, their dreams of military honor are quickly shattered by the inhumanities of war; even those who survive are haunted by the experience, as is Nick's hometown sweetheart, Linda (Meryl Streep).
BLURBS:
"It is a flawed but important movie, both as a work of art and for what it has to tell us about ourselves." - Richard Freedman, Newark Star-Ledger
"This movie has qualities that we almost never see any more -- range and power and breadth of experience, all fully sustained throughout three hours of film that leave us exhausted and satisfied by the end." - David Denby, New York Magazine
"The Deer Hunter is an exalted achievement on many levels not the least of them is that there is hardly a wasted moment or shot in its entire length. It is, above all, a triumph of distillation." - Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer