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Deliverance
Four Atlanta businessmen encounter unexpected terrors during a rafting trip down a raging backwoods river as they are not welcomed by the locals, who stalk and savagely attack them in the woods. Now the must paddle through tough rapids to get to safety while running from the hostile locals.
23 August 1966, Wimbledon, London, England, UK
2 February 1923, Buckhead, Georgia, USA
30 December 1932, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
29 December 1938, Yonkers, New York, USA
August 24, 2008
A sad, brilliant reminder that sometimes people are the most threatening monsters of all.
October 23, 2004
A fantasy about violence, not a realistic consideration of it.
August 24, 2008
Each of the four lead performances is exceptional, none more so than Burt Reynolds' beefy, supercilious Lewis.
December 24, 2014
...an underwhelming adaptation of an underwhelming book.
September 18, 2007
It's the stuff of which slapdash oaters and crime programmers are made but the obvious ambitions of Deliverance are supposed to be on a higher plane.
August 19, 2014
Boorman's film still speaks to us in profound ways, as if to indicate hidden wisdom has long rested in frames glossed up by a once-shocking philosophy.
May 20, 2003
So many of Dickey's lumpy narrative ideas remain in his screenplay that John Boorman's screen version becomes a lot less interesting than it has any right to be.
July 13, 2012
This powerful adaptation of James Dickey's best-selling novel finds director John Boorman establishing a sense of menace almost from the start, and the "squeal like a pig" sequence continues to haunt viewers even decades after the fact.
January 26, 2006
It's a haunting, nightmarish vision.
July 03, 2012
Boorman's interpretation of the material resulted in an American cinematic classic built not only on shock and awe, but emotional subtlety. [Blu-ray]
November 08, 2016
Classic '70s adventure has brutal, disturbing violence.
September 18, 2007
John Boorman's 1972 film of the James Dickey novel has a beautiful visual style that balances the film's machismo message.
