The Deer Hunter (1978)

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Directed by

Michael Cimino

Starring (View all)

Robert De Niro
Michael

John Cazale
Stan

John Savage
Steven

Christopher Walken
Nick

Meryl Streep
Linda

George Dzundza
John

Chuck Aspegren
Axel

Shirley Stoler
Steven's Mother

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Michael Cimino
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Deric Washburn
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One shot is what it's all about.

16 years, 7 months ago at Dec 15 3:41

Lexi

10 votes

''You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot. I try to tell people that but they don't listen.''

An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.

Robert De Niro: Michael

Meryl Streep: Linda

Christopher Wa... read more

The Deer Hunter

14 years, 7 months ago at Nov 29 11:20

bharath

10 votes

Critics and film historians have often noted how the film is divided into three equal thirds or acts. Likewise the plot synopsis is also divided into three acts, spanning the years of 1968-1975.[a 2]

Act I - In Clairton, a small working class town in Western Pennsylvania, in late 1968, Russian American steel workers Michael (De Niro), Steven (Savage), and Nick (Walken), with the sup... read more

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13 years, 8 months ago at Nov 8 10:39

Exeter

10 votes

One of those rare movies that is powerful and tender simultaneously. A love story that feeds into itself without resorting to needless sentimentalist imagery.
If you approve of Michael's "one-shot" policy - and anyone who loves animals as much as he does could not do otherwise - you'll not fail to make the vital connection that this film projects.

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An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.

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