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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: GIBSON,MEL
EAN: 9780790744285
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790744287
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 06, 2000
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 3673
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 1983
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The story of a fiery romance born on the eve of revolution in Sukarno's Indonesia.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 8-FEB-2005
Media Type: DVD
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Australian director Peter Weir had made several excellent films before The Year of Living Dangerously was released to critical acclaim in 1983, but it was this moody tale of romance and political upheaval that bought Weir and star Mel Gibson their tickets to Hollywood. (Weir's next film was the 1985 Harrison Ford hit Witness.) Set in Indonesia in 1965, the film focuses on a group of Caucasian journalists and photographers who are in Jakarta to cover the political upheavals that are threatening to collapse the unstable government of President Sukarno. Gibson plays an Australian correspondent named Guy Hamilton who's determined to get the best story, and he's given invaluable assistance from Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt), a half-Indonesian, half-Australian photojournalist who knows the culture inside and out. Billy introduces Guy to Jill (Sigourney Weaver) and their romance develops in an atmosphere of political unrest and constant personal danger. This journalistic adventure is compelling in itself (and Hunt's gender-switching performance won her a much-deserved Oscar), but it's Weir's creation of a rich, authentically exotic locale that gives the movie its alluring and subtly mysterious atmosphere. A tale of tragedy and survival, it's also a story about fascinating people at a turbulent juncture of history, and the empathy they feel for each other and the culture that surrounds them. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  - The Year of Living Dangerously
Based on the book by C.J.(Christopher) Koch who studied with Wallace Stegner at Stanford's creative writing program as did Ken Kesey, Scott Turow, and Larry McMurtry, among others. Loosely based on the life of Koch's brother who was an Australian journalist based in Indonesia during the 1960's. Directed by Peter Weir; starring Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver.
Rating: - The amazing Linda Hunt
Different from Mad Max and all the rest of Gibson's apocolyptic movies, "The Year of Living Dangerously" is a wonderful period piece that really develops its characters. Linda Hunt is obviously the standout in this production and her "Billy" is really the unhearlded star of this film. There are a number of actors who could have portrayed Guy Hamilton as well or better than Gibson did and Sigourney Weaver's character is little more than "love interest". Having said that, Gibson's and Weaver's roles should not be marginalized; they both did an outstanding job but Linda Hunt simply carries this movie to a much higher level and I doubt many actors could have equalled her performance.
This is an outstanding movie that captures the essence of the oppresive time of Sukarno's Indonesia and the plight of the Indonesian people torn by two opposing political forces fighting for control of Southeast Asia.
This movie also features a haunting theme melody that apparently cannot be found on any soundtrack recording of the film. I have tried unsuccessfully. The music remains in your head long after the film has ended.
Rating:  - The Year of Living Dangerously
I think everything about this film is great. The music, powerful and beautiful; the actors, the political statements, the relationships, everything. Who's more beautiful than early Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver? That's a passionate enough pairing, and then set in the dramatic backdrop of Jakarta in the mid-60's, political upheavals flaring at every turn, make for a very intense and engaging movie. What to speak of the musical score, I just had to go and buy the soundtrack right after I saw this. Linda Hunt is one of the most interesting characters I'd seen in a long time. I loved her in this. I felt, also, that this film brought home the fact of what individuals will sacrifice for their freedom, not only for themselves, but for their families, and country.
Rating: - Best movie I've seen that takes place in Indonesia
How many movies are made about Indonesia? This one is so literally steamy and hot, you'll need a shower afterward. Linda Hunt deserved her Academy Award nomination. Shadow puppets add exotic Indonesian flavor. Passionate, tense romance, and subtle (by today's standards), you-are-there action. Also depicts a view of little-remembered effects of Ugly American anti-Communist policies in the 1960s.
Rating: - haunting images
I have no idea where people place this spooky little film in their list of favorites, but "The Year of Living Dangerously" has been in my top five since I first saw it. As "Bladerunner" gave us haunting images of the near future, images based on man's diabolical insistence on "keeping his neighbor's children hungry," "The Year of Living Dangerously" does the same for the recent past. This film has breadth of scope. Strong story. Strong acting. This film needs to be seen.
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