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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: 7252
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 1983
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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 ... Read More
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.
Rating:  - The Year of Living Dangerously
One the worst documentary shows.It does not highlight much what was going on in the country during such a serious event that had taken place. A very poor production and lack of any real serious investgation.
Rating: - A classic
It is one my favourite movies..actually I could say it still has magical momments when a good story about journalism and love could turn into a classic movie...at the same time you get in a troubling time of Indonesia's History. With a gorgeous Mel Gibson...still young!
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