Deliverance

Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight   d/ John Boorman

Brilliant adaptation by James Dickey of his best-selling novel. Four suburban dads head out for a weekend on a soon-to-be-disappeared river in search of...well we're never really sure. Nature, lost connections, adventure, reality, their manhood, themselves... What they find is more ambiguous, more harrowing, more lethal than their coddled lives until then suggested.

The novel was an immense success and ended up ruining Dickey's life. But it was and is a stunner...and so is this film. One of the finest re-interpretations of a novel ever done.

This will be studied in film classes as long as such things exist. A great classic.

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