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Film · 1972 · Adventure drama
Deliverance
Directed by John Boorman
1972
★ 6.6 editorial score
The outdoors has never felt this hostile on film: Boorman shot in sequence and made his actors run the whitewater themselves, and a weekend canoe trip turns into something much older.
“Survival, says one of the characters helpfully, is the name of the game. Together the members of the party shoot the white water and, individually, are assaulted by a couple of sodomy-inclined hillbillies, scale sheer cliffs using nothing more than what seem to be prehensile fingernails, and fight death duels armed with bow-and-arrow before eventually finding their—well—deliverance.”
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