The Mission (1986 film)
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The two friends were reunited, in one of the rare happy endings that come out of a period of great suffering. As a human story, this is a compelling one. As a Hollywood story, it obviously will not do because the last half of the movie is essentially Dith Pran's story, told from his point of view. Hollywood convention has it that the American ...
Michael W This news/war movie was really good. Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson, and the rest of the cast did a great job in this movie.
- (43)
- Roland Joffé
- R
- Sam Waterston
The Killing Fields holds a 93% rating and an average rating of 8.30/10 at the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 40 reviews, with the consensus: "Artfully composed, powerfully acted, and fueled by a powerful blend of anger and empathy, The Killing Fields is a career-defining triumph for director Roland Joffé and a masterpiece of cinema."
Our review: Parents say ( 1 ): Kids say ( 3 ): This is a tension-filled, fast-paced movie about a difficult and bloody time in American and Southeast Asian history. Based on Schanberg and Pran's actual experiences covering the genocidal Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia, The Killing Fields brings the audience into those terrible times convincingly.
- Rolland Joffe
- Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
- Sam Waterston
Feb 1, 1985 · The Killing Fields: Directed by Roland Joffé. With Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands. A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
- (60K)
- Biography, Drama, History
- Roland Joffé
- 1985-02-01
Jul 19, 2018 · The Killing Fields is an ambitious movie made with an inept, sometimes sly, and very often equivocal script; it’s written like a TV docu-drama, but you can’t always tell what the scenes are getting at. A major early sequence, set in 1973, deals with the accidental bombing of a Cambodian town by an American B-52, but we don’t find out what ...
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12 Feb 1985. Running Time: 142 minutes. Certificate: 15. Original Title: Killing Fields, The. Remarkably it's been some time since Roland Joffe made his seminal picture (and sadly has never ...
