Deliverance (1972)
- Directed by
- John Boorman
- Genre
- drama film, adventure film, rape and revenge film, thriller film, suspense film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 1,827 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Four businessmen from Atlanta travel into the remote Georgia wilderness for a whitewater canoe trip down a river that is about to be dammed. They encounter dangerous locals and harsh natural conditions that turn their adventure into a struggle for survival.
tenseharrowingbleakatmosphericsurvivaluneasygroundedvisceralclaustrophobic
What happens
Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film directed and produced by John Boorman from a screenplay by James Dickey, who adapted it from his 1970 novel. It follows four businessmen from Atlanta who venture into the remote northern Georgia wilderness to go whitewater canoeing down the Cahulawassee River before it is dammed, only to find themselves in danger from the area's inhabitants and nature. It stars Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts. Deliverance was a critical and commercial success. It earned three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, and grossed $46.1 million on a budget of $2 million. It became a popular culture landmark for a scene featuring Cox's character playing "Dueling Banjos" on guitar with a banjo-picking country boy, and garnered notoriety for a scene in which Beatty's character is brutally raped by a mountain man. In 2008, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In retrospective analysis, the film has since garnered criticism from journalists, historians, and citizens of Rabun County, Georgia, where the film was shot, for its portrayal of the people and culture of Appalachia, its promotion of Appalachian stereotypes in film and television, and even has been labeled as an anti-working class and an anti-rural film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Flashpoint (1972)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.