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Deliverance is a film based on a novel by James Dickey, about four Atlanta businessmen who face danger and violence in the Georgia wilderness. The film features a famous banjo scene, a brutal rape, and a shocking ending.
With Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
- (121K)
- Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- John Boorman
- 1972-08-18
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Four city-dwelling friends (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox) decide to get away from their jobs, wives and kids for a week of canoeing in rural Georgia.
- (66)
- John Boorman
- R
- Jon Voight
On a weekend canoeing trip down a river in the Georgia back country, four urban businessmen enter a nightmare in which both nature and mankind conspire to send them through a crucible of danger and degradation in which their lives and perhaps even their souls are put at horrendous risk. — Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net> Synopsis.
James Dickey‘s “Deliverance” also is the story of a “worst journey.” Four city slickers from Atlanta decide to take a canoe trip down a river that will soon be flooded out to make a lake. One of the four is big on the old machismo.
Deliverance consciously inverts the myth that rural people are naturally noble and unspoiled. The four friends from Atlanta need only drive a couple of hundred miles into the hills to find themselves among uncommunicative and suspicious folk, some of whom live seemingly on the edge of savagery.
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