Deliverance
Four friends decide to get away from their lives for a week of canoeing in rural Georgia. When the men arrive, they are not welcomed by the locals, who stalk and savagely attack them in the woods. Reeling from the ambush, the friends attempt to espace but are surrounded by dangerous rapids and pursued by a madman. Soon, their trip turns into a fight for survival.
12 September 1931, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
11 February 1936, Lansing, Michigan, USA
23 August 1966, Wimbledon, London, England, UK
1956
20 May 1918, USA
21 August 1938, South Carolina, USA
30 December 1932, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
26 September 1925, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 February 1923, Buckhead, Georgia, USA
29 December 1938, Yonkers, New York, USA
6 July 1937, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
6 July 1932, Elbert County, Georgia, USA
2 January 1938, USA
23 July 1938, Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA
17 November 1937, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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.
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.
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.
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.
November 08, 2016
Classic '70s adventure has brutal, disturbing violence.
August 24, 2008
Each of the four lead performances is exceptional, none more so than Burt Reynolds' beefy, supercilious Lewis.
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.
December 24, 2014
...an underwhelming adaptation of an underwhelming book.
August 24, 2008
A sad, brilliant reminder that sometimes people are the most threatening monsters of all.
October 23, 2004
A fantasy about violence, not a realistic consideration of it.
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]
January 26, 2006
It's a haunting, nightmarish vision.
