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MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Cimino
Genre: War Drama, POW Drama, Reunion Films, Anti-War Film, Ensemble Film, Drama
Box Office: / $48,979,328
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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. Struc... Full Summary >>

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 T ... Continue >>

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