The Deer Hunter | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Name: The Deer Hunter
Released: 1978-12-8
Cast: Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro

The Deer Hunter

R
3h 3m
1978

86%

PRICING SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Confirm current pricing with applicable retailer. All transactions subject to applicable license terms and conditions.

Winner of five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Director, and one of AFI's Top 100 Films of All Time, The Deer Hunter follows a group of Pennsylvania steelworkers from their blue-collar lives, hunting in the woods of the Alleghenies, to the hells of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Academy Award® winners Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken star in this unforgettable saga of friendship and courage. Experience the brutality of war and the depths of emotional strain on the human spirit in this extraordinarily powerful film classic.

Director:

Michael Cimino

Producer:

Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall

Writer:

Deric Washburn

Cast:

Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, George Dzundza, Shirley Stoler, Chuck Aspegren, Rutanya Alda

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

86%

Critics Consensus: Its greatness is blunted by its length and one-sided point of view, but the film's weaknesses are overpowered by Michael Cimino's sympathetic direction and a series of heartbreaking performances from Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken.

Reviews

Crooked Marquee

Sean Burns

There’s something elemental about the movie’s boys’ adventure machismo, a primal force that overpowers Cimino’s more cartoonish flourishes.

Michael Cimino’s tale about the physical, emotional, and psychological impacts the Vietnam War had on a group of friends remains one of film's ultimate masterpieces. Very few movies have ever captured the unsparing aftermath of war quite as devastatingly.

... Perhaps a little cumbersome, but it’s hard not to get caught up in the film’s big, sentimental sweep.

It grabs you by the lapel and says, "Call me masterpiece!"... These weaknesses are The Deer Hunter's greatest strength -- because, in a year of timid moviemaking, they trumpet the film's daring to fail at being great.

Graphic in its depictions of war and peace, honest in its capturing of human emotion, Deer Hunter is an epic that avoids political points to stress the basic needs we all share.

August 30, 2022

FULL REVIEW