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- 1985
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 41 m
- 1985
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 41 m
Summary In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
Directed By: Sydney Pollack
- 1985
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 41 m
- 1985
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 41 m
Out of Africa
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Summary In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
Directed By: Sydney Pollack
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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50% Positive
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50% Mixed
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Out of Africa is a great movie to look at, breathtakingly filmed on location. It is a movie with the courage to be about complex, sweeping emotions, and to use the star power of its actors without apology.
Meryl Streep is back in top form. This means that her performance in Out of Africa is at the highest level of acting in film today. Also, since she is Streep, it means that a return to form is not a return: she has realized a character utterly different from any she has done before.
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The passage of years have shown Out of Africa to be a nice, pleasant (if padded) motion picture that's long on visual and audio poetry and short on substance. It tells a grand love story in less-than-grand fashion but is nevertheless worth seeing because of all the other things it does right.
Africa might have been another Gone With the Wind, blown by passion and buffeted by social upheaval. But in the end it's like a trip to a game park called Extinction. [20 Dec 1985, p.C1]
At two-and-a-half hours, Out of Africa certainly makes a leisurely start into its story. Just short of boredom, however, the picture picks up pace and becomes a sensitive, enveloping romantic tragedy. Nonetheless it’s a long way to go for a downbeat ending, which may hurt broad appeal.
For all that it may come out of Africa, the film's final destination is not many miles from Disneyland.
It's big, beautiful, and imposing. But there isn't much to it, and pretty pictures -- replacing ideas, not supporting them -- are its only real attraction.
Production Company
Mirage Enterprises,
Polyphony Digital
Release Date Dec 20, 1985
Duration 2 h 41 m
Rating PG
Tagline Based on a true story.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 7 Wins & 11 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
