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starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streepdirected by: Michael Cimino
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300186279
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 1558801170
Label: MCA/Universal Home Video
Manufacturer: MCA/Universal Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: MCA/Universal Home Video
Release Date: March 01, 1992
Running Time: 183 minutes
Sales Rank: 9378
Studio: MCA/Universal Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 23, 1979
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, The Deer Hunter is simultaneously an audacious directorial conceit and one of the greatest films ever made about friendship and the personal impact of war. Like Apocalypse Now, it's hardly a conventional battle film--the soldier's experience was handled with greater authenticity in Platoon--but its depiction of war on an intimate scale packs a devastatingly dramatic punch. Director Michael Cimino may be manipulating our emotions with masterful skill, but he does it in a way that stirs the soul and pinches our collective nerves with graphic, high-intensity scenes of men under life-threatening duress. Although Russian-roulette gambling games were not a common occurrence during the Vietnam war, they're used here as a metaphor for the futility of the war itself. To the viewer, they become unforgettably intense rites of passage for the best friends--Pennsylvania steelworkers played by Robert De Niro, John Savage, and Oscar winner Christopher Walken--who may survive or perish during their tour through a tropical landscape of hell. Back home, their loved ones must cope with the war's domestic impact, and in doing so they allow The Deer Hunter to achieve a rare combination of epic storytelling and intimate, heart-rending drama. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Sad To Say, It's Lacking
This is one of those movies that SHOULD have worked so well, and comes so close. The best way for me to describe it is to actually compare it to another film with Robert De Niro: "The Mission." Although a very different film, it shares the same fatal flaw as "The Deer Hunter": we really never get a chance to get to KNOW these characters very well. So instead of feeling what they're feeling, we just sort of watch what happens to them. Both films feel very impersonal. But I think "The Mission" ... Read More
Rating: - One of my wife favorites
My wife top five movies.I was not very crazy about it.Once again it tried to make fools out of us and what we did in the Vietnam war.
Rating:  - Good But Too Long!
I just couldn't get into this because of the length. As noted dozens of times, the wedding scene was just ridiculously long. My other problem was that the movie didn't flow... it just jumped from scene to scene leaving the viewer wondering what just happened. I'm glad I finally saw this, but what a waste of time.
Rating:  - A defining film in the long history of war movies
Deer Hunter is the story of a group of young American men prior to, during and after their service as GI's in Vietnam. It is a powerful, intimate and realistic movie that touches the very soul of the American Dream. The young men are innocent, a bit lost in their world, naive, full of life and expecting a lot from their future prior to fighting in Vietnam. Then they get there, in the midst of war, in that place where they lose all of their illusions, their mind or their body for some. Save for friendship, ... Read More
Rating:  - Skip it
I nearly fell asleep three times in the first hour alone. The last thirty minutes was a contrived joke and I hardly understand why it's called The Deer Hunter-should be plural. I like Deniro, Streep, and Walken but this movie is pretentious and boring.
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