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Name: The Postman
Released: 1997-12-25
Cast: Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams, Scott Bairstow

The Postman

PG-13
2h 58m
1997

14%

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Academy Award winner Kevin Costner directs and stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller. In 2013 anarchy reigns, until a solitary wanderer discovers a postman's uniform, delivers letters ... and rekindles a spirit of revolution.

Director:

Kevin Costner

Producer:

Jim Wilson, Steve Tisch, Kevin Costner

Writer:

Eric Roth, Brian Helgeland

Cast:

Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams, Scott Bairstow, Giovanni Ribisi, Peggy Lipton, Tom Petty

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

14%

Critics Consensus: A massive miscalculation in self-mythologizing by director and star Kevin Costner, The Postman would make for a goofy good time if it weren't so fatally self-serious.

Reviews

The Moving Picture Show

Joe Leydon

In synopsis, The Postman may sound like a blueprint for a Saturday Night Live comedy sketch. On screen, however, the weirdly compelling plot, taken from a novel by David Brin, is all the more affecting for being played perfectly straight.

The Postman is probably worth a revival as a film that was laughed off the screen, but got plenty right in retrospect... a sci-fi film that’s less about machines and technology than ideas, and that’s as unfashionable now in 2024 as it was in 1997’s 2013.

Costner the director lavishes all sorts of attention on Costner the actor, from laughably reverential dialogue ("You give out hope like it was candy in your pocket") to loving close-ups to gauzy slow-motion montages.

You can go with the idea of a heroic postie implausibly rallying the downtrodden, or you can have fun making fun of its awfulness.

It's about as inspiring as a movie about a vengeful meter reader.

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