The Year of Living Dangerously

The Year of Living Dangerously
by Peter Weir

The Year of Living Dangerously
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Actor: Bill Kerr, Linda Hunt, Mel Gibson, Michael Murphy, Sigourney Weaver
Director: Peter Weir
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-06-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Movie Review: Wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is outstanding. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to take a journey.

Summary of The Year of Living Dangerously

Guy hamilton is a journalist on his first job as a foreign correspondent. His apparently humdrum assignment to indonesia soon turns hot as president sukarno electrifies the populace and frightens foreign powers. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Mel Gibson Sigourney Weaver Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Peter Weir
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

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