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The Deer Hunter
Directed by
Michael Cimino
R
1978
3h 3m
Drama
,
War
8.1
86%
91%
8.0
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The lives of a group of friends are forever changed by the Vietnam War.
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Cast of The Deer Hunter
Robert De Niro
Michael Vronsky
Christopher Walken
Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich
John Cazale
Stan
John Savage
Steven Pushkov
Meryl Streep
Linda
George Dzundza
John
Rutanya Alda
Angela
Pierre Segui
Julien
Amy Wright
Bridesmaid
Richard Kuss
Linda's Father
Joe Grifasi
Bandleader
Dennis Watlington
Cab Driver
Shirley Stoler
Steven's Mother
Chuck Aspegren
Axel
Mary Ann Haenel
Stan's Girl
Mady Kaplan
Axel's Girl
Paul D'Amato
Sergeant
Christopher Colombi Jr.
Wedding Man
Victoria Karnafel
Sad Looking Girl
Jack Scardino
Cold Old Man
The Deer Hunter Ratings & Reviews
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
So many of the elements are so good that it all adds up to a pity. Someone, or more than one -- writer or producers or director or editor or all -- fogged up about why this picture was being made and whether it was on the rails.
Los Angeles Times
Charles Champlin
A film to be debated and argued over seriously because it is an earnest, serious and impressive work, despite the reservations it is necessary to have about it. In a thin and evasive year, The Deer Hunter joins a thin company that aspire to greatness.
Associated Press
Bob Thomas
The Deer Hunter might have been a superb document of the devastation to human lives caused by the Vietnam war... But director Michael Cimino allows the story to drag on past three hours, with endless scenes of male camaraderie and war atrocity.
Village Voice
Andrew Sarris
Far from achieving Tolstoyan heights, however, Cimino fails even to attain a Scorsesian or Coppolian level. The structure of the film is so rickety, and the details so incongruous, that whatever feelings were intended finally peter out.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Perry Stewart
The combat scenes are painfully graphic and, while it concludes on a hopeful note, The Deer Hunter remains an emotional thunderbolt which is apt to send you out of the Opera House Cinema in a state of profound cinematic shell shock.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Denby
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.
Newsweek
Jack Kroll
The Deer Hunter is a film of great courage and overwhelming emotional power, a fiercely loving embrace of life in a death-ridden time. And it places the director-writer-producer, 37-year-old Michael Cimino, right at the center of our film culture.
Arizona Republic
Mike Petryni
The Deer Hunter operates on several emotional, intellectual and artistic levels, yet, like the best of American films, it remains fundamentally a moving entertainment.
Boston Globe
Bruce McCabe
It's a film of excesses, some of which succeed admirably and others of which fail spectacularly. But the excesses are what make this a distinctive film. Its obsessiveness is riveting.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
What distinguishes The Deer Hunter most is its many rich characters and the size of its vision. This is a big film, dealing with big issues, made on a grand scale.
Detroit Free Press
Susan Stark
One of the most ambitious, affecting, American movies ever made. Amazing.
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
Cimino, an obvious film buff, has tried unsuccessfully to pay homage to a variety of classic film styles and genres dealing with male bonding.
Orlando Sentinel
Dean Johnson
The meticulous work of De Niro establishes an intelligent base for the rest of the cast, a rare ensemble of peers awesome in their presentation of the ordinary and the extraordinary.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
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.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Pollack
The Deer Hunter is a searing motion picture experience, a powerful assault on nerves, a shattering body-blow to memories, a true creator of nightmares, a sudden, savage injection of pain and awareness into the lethargy of contentedness.
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
The wayward, maddening screenplay succeeds only in working up a gruesome melodramatic later -- hardly the catharsis promised by a bold treatment of the wounds of our most divisive war.
The Hollywood Reporter
Arthur Knight
To my mind, The Deer Hunter is a major achievement in American movies. And I fervently hope that the American public won't vote me wrong.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
It has no more moral intelligence than the Clint Eastwood action pictures, yet it's an astonishing piece of work, an uneasy mixture of violent pulp and grandiosity, with an enraptured view of common life -- poetry of the commonplace.
New York Daily News
Kathleen Carroll
In trying to measure the devastating impact of Vietnam on the lives of three American soldiers, Cimino brings home the true horror of that senseless conflict in a way that the 6 O'Clock News never could.
TIME Magazine
Frank Rich
This excruciatingly violent, three-hour Viet Nam saga demolishes the moral and ideological cliches of an era: it shoves the audience into hell and leaves it stranded without a map.
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