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- 1990
- PG-13
- Orion Pictures
- 3 h 1 m
- 1990
- PG-13
- Orion Pictures
- 3 h 1 m
Summary Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. Dunbar (Costner) wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an adandoned fort, where a sioux tribe is his only neighbor. Overcoming the language barrier and their mutual fear and distrust, Dunbar and the proud Indians gradually become friends. Eventually, he fall...
Directed By: Kevin Costner
Written By: Michael Blake
- 1990
- PG-13
- Orion Pictures
- 3 h 1 m
- 1990
- PG-13
- Orion Pictures
- 3 h 1 m
Dances with Wolves
72
8.4
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Summary Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. Dunbar (Costner) wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an adandoned fort, where a sioux tribe is his only neighbor. Overcoming the language barrier and their mutual fear and distrust, Dunbar and the proud Indians gradually become friends. Eventually, he fall...
Directed By: Kevin Costner
Written By: Michael Blake
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
72
75% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
20% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
72
75% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
20% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
While no one is going to place Costner alongside Laurence Olivier in the acting department, he brings a likability to Dunbar that many better performers might not have been able to match.
A gigantic achievement, an endowment of riches.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 233 User Ratings
8.4
91% Positive
211 Ratings
211 Ratings
6% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
3% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 233 User Ratings
8.4
91% Positive
211 Ratings
211 Ratings
6% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
3% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
Along with Edward Scissorhands and Goodfellas, Dances with Wolves is one of my favourites of 1990. It is a wonderful film, and a marvel from beginning to end. I am not a Kevin Costner basher, he has done some work I don't care for, but this and a few others(Field of Dreams for instance) actually does show he has talent. He does do a heartfelt job directing, and his acting isn't too shabby either, in fact he gives a certain decency to Dunbar which I had difficulty not empathising with. He is very well supported by Graheme Greene and Mary McDonell who is especially brilliant. The cinematography and scenery are just magnificent, while John Barry's score is nothing short of amazing. The moving climax gives further emotional weight to an already poignant story, while the script is wholly credible and the characters feel real. In conclusion, a fine film and I had no problem with its Best Picture win. 10/10 Bethany Cox
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What a beautiful epic movie. Dialogues full of wisdom, story with a big meaning, beautiful landscape and music. The movie shows a lot of indian culture and touched me, because I understand the ugly side of our "civilisation" very well and like the free spirit of the wild life. Anyway sometimes the movie showed his antipathy towards the white culture too much.
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The treatment of the Sioux is not only sympathetic, it's ethnographically exact. Neither Noble Savages nor Red Injuns, the natives in Dances With Wolves are differentiated human beings about to undergo cultural genocide.
The film's politically correct repudiation of the familiar black-and-white characterizations of the white and red man is ultimately undermined, however, when the pendulum swings too far in the other direction.
It would be nice, for instance, to meet some white man, other than Dunbar [Costner], who is not a brutish lout. And it would not harm the film if there were one or two bad-natured Sioux visible in it. [12 Nov 1990, p.102]
A western for people who are completely ignorant about the genre. Costner's direction is barely competent and frequently clumsy.
The movie is childishly naïve... like a New Age social-studies lesson. It isn't really revisionist; it's the old stuff toned down and sensitized. [17 Dec 1990]
Its a very good film it explains the civil war and how the civil war started its about how the Indians were mistreated and how 1 man becomes a traitor and joins the Indians and you learn how their people and not savages
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Marvelous storytelling. An epic movie that drew me in, and made me one with it's leading character as he became one with the land and its people. It is romantic, adventurous, war-torn, violent, peaceful, and lovely. It is full of love, hate, misunderstanding and guidance. Dances with Wolves is a picture of mankind at both its best... and worst.
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Dances with wolves is something that you don't see in movies now a days and it speaks to you In away that movies should this without a doubt one of my favorite movies of all time
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The soundtrack was awesome, the buffalo scene was awesome, the mustache was all time. But the last 45 minutes is just very bland, this is what we were building to?? (also he had no mustache the last hour)
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Production Company
Tig Productions,
Majestic Films International,
Allied Filmmakers
Release Date Nov 9, 1990
Duration 3 h 1 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Inside everyone is a frontier waiting to be discovered.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 7 Wins & 12 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 9 Nominations
