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VHS : Revolution (1985)

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starring: Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Joan Plowright, Dave King directed by: Hugh Hudson See Larger Image Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790741970 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0790741970 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: June 01, 1999 Running Time: 126 minutes Sales Rank: 312 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1985 Related Items: The Crossing 1776 (Restored Director's Cut) Benedict Arnold - A Question of Honor Johnny Tremain John Adams (HBO Miniseries) see more Editorial Review: Amazon.com: This big and sometimes messy movie achieves the seemingly impossible: it demythologizes the American Revolution and lets us see it in a completely new light. Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire) has directed a starkly beautiful, powerfully visceral portrait of war from the point of view of the little people who are swept along in its wake. Al Pacino is Tom Dobb, a poor, illiterate trapper bringing up a young son when rebellion breaks out in New York. Dobb's small boat is requisitioned for the war effort, and he and his son become reluctant conscripts. It takes six months and some truly vile treatment by the British before the conflict becomes personal for Dobb and he makes the American cause his own. The Dobb family's tale intersects that of British Sergeant Major Peasy (a formidable Donald Sutherland) and his own son. As the tide of the war turns, the enemies' fortunes are reversed. Tom's love interest, Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski), is a fiery beauty who breaks from her family of wealthy Tories (British sympathizers) to fight for freedom. Kinski is wonderful as a living Lady Liberty, and Pacino has some extraordinary moments of raw emotion as Dobb. The film's highlights include authentic, grisly re-creations of famous Revolutionary War battles, including Yorktown and Valley Forge. This movie will draw you in, gradually but inexorably, as it creates its convincing and compelling world. --Laura Mirsky Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - I guess its a matter of tast I think its easily the best movie about the American Revolution. The A&E videos of TV pressentations of "The Crossing" and "Benedict Arnold" are also very good. While how good it is is a matter of opinion, anyone who thinks that Gibson's silly movie is better doesn't know much about American history. This movie has the feeling of the 1770s and the criticism of Pacino's and Kinsky's accents is amusing. The residents of the americas came from every corner of the earth and regional accents were ... Read More Rating: - A real movie What if Michael Mann met George Washington? In contrast to the stale old celebrations of the mythology of the American Revolution, this is a tension, action and character filled portrayal of the most exciting time in America. I wish HBO could do this quality of production over the same ten hours that they wasted on the John Adams series. This story starts and ends in New York City, but the scenes of the battles and the sites of the Revolution, including Valley Forge and ... Read More Rating: - Terrible Dis the Patriot if you like but it is ten times this film this rotten tomato could ever be. It had potential, it had actors, it had a "feel" of the times but plot, dialogue, character development or simple interest it had not. And what was with that goober on Donald Sutherland's face?However, there is one assault scene during the battle on Long Island that is the most accurate portrayal of British open field tactics I have ever seen. Hardly enough to save the film. Take a pass on this one. Rating: - The best yet... I guess you either love this movie or hate it. I loved it. I have a degree in history and I am combat veteran of the war in Afghanistan. This is best portrayal yet of the American Revolution. War is dark, dirty and complicated... so are the soldiers who experience it. The movie captures this, and Al Pacino nails the plight of the common foot soldier. Yes, there are some fact errors, but none as glaring as the ones found in "The Patriot." How does anyone alive today have any knowledge of the ... Read More Rating: - Haunting and real, a cinematic work of art I chose this film over Gibson's The Patriot for my son to view as part of his course on American history and literature, with no regrets. The film has a Dickensian feel - narrow dirty alleys in New York and Philadelphia, rain and mud and overcast skies and rugged raw landscape out in the countryside, fires in nooks and crannies of the old cities in the night, characters on the British and American side coming and going until you are dizzy, the filth and grime and misery of war, the apparently ... Read More see more

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