The Deer Hunter (1978)

6
/ 10
11 User Ratings
3h 3m
Running Time

December 8, 1978
Release Date

The Deer Hunter (1978)

6
/ 10
11 User Ratings
3h 3m
Running Time

December 8, 1978
Release Date

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Plot.

A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

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This Movie Is About.

weddingΒ Β·Β 
vietnamΒ Β·Β 
friendsΒ Β·Β 
escapeΒ Β·Β 
suicideΒ Β·Β 
small townΒ Β·Β 
pennsylvaniaΒ Β·Β 
vietnam veteranΒ Β·Β 
saigonΒ Β·Β 
anti warΒ Β·Β 
deer huntingΒ Β·Β 
russian rouletteΒ Β·Β 
drunkennessΒ Β·Β 
revolverΒ Β·Β 
steel workerΒ Β·Β 
romantic triangleΒ Β·Β 
viet congΒ Β·Β 
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Cast & Crew.

Details.

Release Date
December 8, 1978

Status
Released

Running Time
3h 3m

Content Rating
R

Budget
$15,000,000

Box Office
$49,000,000

Filming Locations
Pittsburgh, United States Β· Bangkok, Thailand

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Wiki.

The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after fighting in the Vietnam War. The three soldiers are played by Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage, with John Cazale (in his final role), Meryl Streep, and George Dzundza playing supporting roles. The story takes place in Clairton, Pennsylvania, a working-class town on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh, and in Vietnam.

The film was based in part on an unproduced screenplay called The Man Who Came to Play by Louis A. Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker, about Las Vegas and Russian roulette. Producer Michael Deeley, who bought the script, hired writer/director Michael Cimino who, with Deric Washburn, rewrote the script, taking the Russian roulette element and placing it in the Vietnam War. The film went over-budget and over-schedule, and ended up costing $15 million. EMI Films, who produced the film, released the film internationally while Universal Pictures handled its distribution in North America.

The Deer Hunter received acclaim from critics and audiences, with praise for Cimino's direction, the performances of its cast (particularly from De Niro, Walken, Cazale, and Streep), and its screenplay, realistic themes and tones, and cinematography. It was also successful at the box office, grossing $49 million. At the 51st Academy Awards, it was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won five: Best Picture, Best Director for Cimino, Best Supporting Actor for Walken, Best Sound, and Best Film Editing. The film marked Meryl Streep's first Academy Award nomination (for Best Supporting Actress).

Despite the film's critical acclaim and Academy Award success, some of the industry's most prominent critics derided what they viewed as The Deer Hunter's simplistic, bigoted, and historically inaccurate depictions of the Viet Cong and of America's position in the Vietnam War. The central theme of the Viet Cong forcing American captives to play Russian Roulette has been widely criticized as having no basis in history, a claim Cimino denied but did not refute with documentary evidence.

It has been featured on lists of the best films ever made, such as being named the 53rd-greatest American film of all time by the American Film Institute in 2007 in their 10th Anniversary Edition of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1996, as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

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