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Year of Living Dangerously, The
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 9 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Romance | War
Written by:
Peter Weir
David Williamson
C.J. Koch (also novel)
Directed by: Peter Weir
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 21, 1983
DVD: August 20, 1997
Running Time: 115 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG
Starring Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, and Bill Kerr
Guy Hamilton (Gibson) a journalist on his first job in Indonesia during the last years of President Sukarno reign. He is helped by his photographer, a half-Chinese dwarf Billy Kwan (Hunt) and diplomat Jill Bryant (Weaver) who he is having an affair with.
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What The Critics Said
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The Year of Living Dangerously is a wonderfully complex film about personalities more than events, and we really share the feeling of living in that place, at that time.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Michael Blowen
The movie masterfully evokes, through stunning direction and magnificent performances, the heat and passion of desperate people living in desperate times. [18 Feb 1983]
TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
Ambitious, stylish, and ideologically confused, The Year of Living Dangerously falters in its attempts to succeed simultaneously as thriller, romance, and political tract, while also encompassing director Peter Weir's penchant for half-baked mysticism. Still, it's a gripping film.
Read Full Review >Variety Staff (Not Credited)
Here is an astonishing feat of acting by New Yorker Linda Hunt, cast by Weir because he could not locate a short male actor to fit the bill. A bizarre, yet touching, romantic triangle develops between Gibson, Hunt, and Sigourney Weaver as a British Embassy official.
Read Full Review >Empire Ian Nathan
With its echoes of Graham Greene’s "The Quiet American," the script is inevitably preachy and Weir’s camera glowers over the injustices of President Sukarno’s failing regime in late 1965, but the performances are strong and the drama gripping.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Vincent Canby
Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously is a good, romantic melodrama that suffers more than most good, romantic melodramas in not being much better than it is.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
The plot becomes landlocked in true-life implausibilities; the characters rarely get a hold on the moviegoer's heart or lapels. What saves this meditation on the vestiges of colonialism is, ironically, its celebration of American star power.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jay Scott
The Year of Living Dangerously is chic, enigmatic, self-assured - and empty. [18 Feb 1983]
Chicago Reader Dave Kehr
Peter Weir's attempt to make a "Casablanca" for the 80s - a romance set against a background of exoticism and intrigue - suffers from hazy plotting and a constant, pretentious mystification.
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