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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792847632
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792847636
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 21, 2000
Running Time: 130 minutes
Sales Rank: 8724
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: May 04, 1984
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson lead a stellar cast that includes Sir Laurence Olivier Daniel Day-Lewis and Liam Neeson in this action-packed adventure bursting with sensational battles raging storms and an intensity as powerful as the mighty sea itself! Bristling with commanding performances blazing dialogue and 'superb action scenes' (Los Angeles Times) this 'spectacular movie' (New York Magazine) is 'everything a high-adventure fan could want' (Variety)!Hopkins delivers 'a brilliant portrayal' (Boxoffice) as William Bligh a real-life sea captain who in 1787 steered The Bounty on a 27000-mile voyage into danger chaos and madness. After 31 days of battling severe sea squalls and Bligh's ever-increasing cruelty the weary crew is relieved to finally land on a remote island. But soon their tyrannical captain wants to sail again and the desperate men turn to first mate Fletcher Christian (Gibson) to help them take the ship by force...or die trying.System Requirements:Starring: Mel Gibson Anthony Hopkins Edward Fox Laurence Olivier Directed By: Roger Donaldson Running Time: 130 Min. Color Copyright 2003 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 027616854742
Amazon.com:
Director Roger Donaldson (Thirteen Days) has breathed vibrant new life into the classic story of the mutiny on the Bounty. With a dream cast--Mel Gibson, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Laurence Olivier, Liam Neeson, and Daniel Day-Lewis--and a script by Robert Bolt (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia), The Bounty takes a revisionist tack through the well-charted waters of an oft-told tale. Hopkins's Captain Bligh is no raving sadist in the Charles Laughton mode. (Laughton played Bligh in the first Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935.) Instead, Sir Anthony plays Bligh as a hard-nosed imperialist explorer simply trying to get the job done in the time-honored manner: on the backs of the poor gobs under his command. Still, when Bligh's suppressed powder keg of rage finally blows, Hopkins is formidable indeed. Mel Gibson gives one of the most soulful performances of his career as mutiny leader Fletcher Christian. He's also at the height of his blue-eyed, buff good looks, and his romance with Tahitian maiden Mauatua (lovely Tevaite Vernette) is decidedly erotic. Liam Neeson is a veritable force of nature as the scrappy seaman Charles Churchill, and Daniel Day-Lewis is sublimely hateful as Master John Fryer, a pompous toady. With special effects to rival those of The Perfect Storm, the alluring eye candy of a tall-masted schooner under full sail, lush tropical greenery, and bevies of bodacious South Sea Islands babes, plus a gripping story line, The Bounty deserves a rescue from undeserved obscurity. --Laura Mirsky
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Diasppointed
I liked this movie alot, up until the crew gets to the island. I was not prepared for the excessive nudity, and it was offensive. The nudity was upper body of island females. It was done to be authentic to the time and place, and perhaps the islanders really lived that way. So, if nudity doesn't bother you in this context, then you would probably enjoy this movie. If you find nudity in movies as inappropriate as my family does, then I would not purchase this movie.
Rating: - Sex At Sea: Roger Donaldson's "Bounty"...
The premise of this Australian film is to purpose an historically more accurate and plausible explanation for the famed "mutiny on HMAV (His Majesty's Armed Vessel) Bounty." That proposal is that Captain (actually "Lieutenant") Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) was a working class stiff trying to be upward mobil and had basically a working class mouth -- i. e. he was too verbally abusive, not the fictional physical sadist that Charles Laughton portrayed in the 1930s classic.
Moreover like every ... Read More
Rating:  - The most accurate and realistic version of the infamous mutiny
The 1935 black & White version of "Mutiny on the bounty" may have won an oscar for Best Picture at the time, but will likely strike modern viewers as dated and unrealistic. Marlon Brando's 1962 remake is the most epic, captivating and compelling version even though it failed at the box office when first released; indeed the '62 version is a masterpiece (see my Amazon review). But Mel Gibson's 1984 version, simply called
"The Bounty," is without doubt the most historically accurate and realistic ... Read More
Rating: - great movie
Awesome movie, just a pity there wasn't time to cover the pitcairn story and also more on Bligh's boat journey to timor.
Rating: - Forget This Edition!
If u love this movie, like I do, forget this region 1 edition and go for the UK region 0 disc. The UK disc has two exclusive commentaries and lots of extras not found on the US disc. It, the UK disc, is also NTSC (the US television system) so is perfect for US customers.
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