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: GIBSON,MEL
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

Movie Reviews of The Year of Living Dangerously

Movie Review: The Year of Living Dangerously
Summary: 4 Stars

Based on the book by C.J.(Christopher) Koch who studied with Wallace Stegner at Stanford's creative writing program as did Ken Kesey, Scott Turow, and Larry McMurtry, among others. Loosely based on the life of Koch's brother who was an Australian journalist based in Indonesia during the 1960's. Directed by Peter Weir; starring Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver.

Summary of The Year of Living Dangerously

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
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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