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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783114897
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783114893
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 08, 1999
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 6322
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 21, 1986
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Steven Spielberg's first feature film, 1971's Duel, is set on a desert highway. It stars Dennis Weaver as a driver being pursued by a menacing truck, which is following him with all the vengeance of the ancient furies. In this spiritual update from 1984, C. Thomas Howell plays a guy taking a drive-away car from Chicago to San Diego. On a whim, in the rain, and against his better judgment, he picks up a hitchhiker (Rutger Hauer). The hitcher quickly admits to being a murdering psychopath, and once Howell finally gets him out of his car, he is pursued with all the vengeance of the ancient furies. We're never sure if the hitcher is a figment of his imagination, making Howell a schizophrenic killer, or if he's real and Howell is the random victim of a wandering madman, which is how his potential new girlfriend (Jennifer Jason Leigh) thinks of him. Either way, The Hitcher is great fun, kinda scary, and teetering on the brink of 'must see.' --Andy Spletzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Very good B movie
Rutger Hauer dominates this classy thriller, with a performance that matches his role in Bladerunner. Every twitch he makes is scary and from the start of the film you are left in no doubt that this guy is seriously deranged. Occasionally some of the other actors wern't quite up to the same standard, but in general this is a well acted film.
Forget about plot and any sense that this could really happen. Think more of Halloween and translate Michael Myers as the Hitcher and you'll be ... Read More
Rating:  - Unmissable
The Hitcher is one of the best films ever made and ultimately one of most overlooked as well. The premise of the film is very simple: Jim Halsey is driving a car cross country with plans of dropping it off at his destination when he comes across hitchhiker John Ryder, who seems suspicious from the start. It is incredibly tense and atmospheric and centres around a terrifying performance from Rutger Hauer as John Ryder, a mysterious drifter intent on following C. Thomas Howell's Jim Halsey and making ... Read More
Rating: - Rutger scares like no one else
I absolutely love Rutger Hauer. He can be so scary and this movie is perfectly acted by him. You won't be disappointed. It will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Rating: - Nothing scarier than a killer without a reason
It's been years since I saw this one and still like it the same. Rutger Hauer gives a chilling performance as a psychotic hitch hiker. The story begins when a young driver Jim Halsey(C. Thomas Howell) picks up Hauer and gets a knife put to his throat. He soon out wits the killer and a game between the two soon begins. A lethal game that claims several lives on the way to the end. The movie has a decent plot with some action and car chases.
The gore isn't that great. The suspense and Hauer's ... Read More
Rating: - Rutger is the Hitcher!
Sorry Sean Bean your a fine actor but, your no Rutger Hauer. Hauer nailed that role as "John Ryder" no one else can play that part. Rutger Hauer performance is so amazing as soon as he gets in that car he steals the show he plays the villain very well. Hauer and Howell were so good together it was so real. The car seen between the two in the beginning of the movie was so well done they have very good chemisrty together. In the new movie they added a third person makes no sense at all. It's about a young ... Read More
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