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Deliverance
The movie follows four Atlanta businessmen as they canoe down a river in the remote northern Georgia wilderness before the valley is flooded by construction of a dam. Soon enough, the trip becomes a nightmare when they run into creepy rednecks, Gods forgotten creatures.
1956
23 July 1938, Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA
20 May 1918, USA
23 August 1966, Wimbledon, London, England, UK
2 January 1938, USA
17 November 1937, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
12 September 1931, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
6 July 1932, Elbert County, Georgia, USA
August 24, 2008
A sad, brilliant reminder that sometimes people are the most threatening monsters of all.
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.
January 26, 2006
It's a haunting, nightmarish vision.
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]
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.
December 24, 2014
...an underwhelming adaptation of an underwhelming book.
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.
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.
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.
October 23, 2004
A fantasy about violence, not a realistic consideration of it.
August 24, 2008
Each of the four lead performances is exceptional, none more so than Burt Reynolds' beefy, supercilious Lewis.
November 08, 2016
Classic '70s adventure has brutal, disturbing violence.