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MPAA Raing: R
Director: Michael Cimino
Genres: War Drama, POW Drama, Reunion Films, Anti-War Film, Ensemble Film, Drama
Box Office: / $48,979,328
Sound By: Dolby
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Summary:
One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class steel workers and notorious for its ahistorical use of Russian roulette in the Vietnam sequences. Structured in five sections contr... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Robert De Niro - (Michael)
John Cazale - (Stan)
John Savage - (Steven)
Meryl Streep - (Linda)
Christopher Walken - (Nick)
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Review:
Realizing that the three-hour film would need to be a prestige event to draw public interest, Universal followed Grease producer Allan_Carr's advice and opened The Deer Hunter for one week for Academy Award consideration in December 1978, putting off the national opening until February 1979. The gambit succeeded. The film won the Best P... Continue >>

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