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List Price: $14.96 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 6535
Released: June 6, 2000 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
GUY HAMILTON IS A JOURNALIST ON HIS FIRST JOB AS A FOREIGNCORRESPONDENT. HIS APPARENTLY HUMDRUM ASSIGNMENT TO INDONESIA SOON TURNS HOT AS PRESIDENT SUKARNO ELECTRIFIES THE POPULACE ANDFRIGHTENS FOREIGN POWERS.
Description of The Year of Living Dangerously:
Australian director Peter Weir had made several excellent films before The Year of Living Dangerously was released to critical acclaim in 1983, but it was this moody tale of romance and political upheaval that bought Weir and star Mel Gibson their tickets to Hollywood. (Weir's next film was the 1985 Harrison Ford hit Witness.) Set in Indonesia in 1965, the film focuses on a group of Caucasian journalists and photographers who are in Jakarta to cover the political upheavals that are threatening to collapse the unstable government of President Sukarno. Gibson plays an Australian correspondent named Guy Hamilton who's determined to get the best story, and he's given invaluable assistance from Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt), a half-Indonesian, half-Australian photojournalist who knows the culture inside and out. Billy introduces Guy to Jill (Sigourney Weaver) and their romance develops in an atmosphere of political unrest and constant personal danger. This journalistic adventure is compelling in itself (and Hunt's gender-switching performance won her a much-deserved Oscar), but it's Weir's creation of a rich, authentically exotic locale that gives the movie its alluring and subtly mysterious atmosphere. A tale of tragedy and survival, it's also a story about fascinating people at a turbulent juncture of history, and the empathy they feel for each other and the culture that surrounds them. --Jeff Shannon
The Year of Living Dangerously Reviews:
Wonderful! 
2009-04-02 - This movie is outstanding. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to take a journey.
Mel and Sigourney 
2009-02-13 - This is an unusual film. The photography, especially on location, is above average, the acting is exceptional, and the story has its moments. The problem is: What on earth was the movie about? A journalist trying to get a scoop in Indonesia during a time of political unrest? Yes. But who were the opponents in the struggle? On whose side was the hero's office manager and secretary? Which side was the Linda Hunt character on? What was in his secret files, and why were they kept? And why was Sigourney Weaver in the film beyond the kissing and hugging scenes? Whose side was she on? Who were the opposition journalists beyond vulgar louts? And why were they vulgar louts?
Linda Hunt, playing a dwarf man, was clearly a woman. During one awkward shot you could see the outline of breasts. (The Academy Award for Hunt was another product of political correctness.) And the ending of the film, as Mel tries to reach an airplane containing Sigourney, is simply ridiculous. The most interesting part of the film: try to count how many cigarettes Mel lights up during this very long movie.
THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY 
2009-01-30 - BUENA PELICULA, LA ACTUACION DE LINDA HUNT, FORMIDABLE, MUY MERECIDO EL OSCAR QUE ELLA RECIBIO.
DVD - The Year of Living Dangerously
2009-01-30 - We recently purchased "The Year of Living Dangerously" DVD from Amazon. The entire process of ordering was very smooth and the DVD was received in a timely manner. The product is one of the best movies ever and we were so grateful that it was available at Amazon and at a very good price.
"A Kalaidescope Of Colors, Textures, Strange and Beautiful People"
2009-01-18 - Mel Gibson is in his prime and on his game. Sigourney Weaver, ditto. The person we cannot take our eyes off of, however, is Linda Hunt, playing a tiny little man, yes man, Billy, who is available to assist Mel with his own longtime experience in Indonesia as it applies to different cultures, the journalistic underground, and secret needed information. Mel as an Austrailian journalist is there to record the events dealing with the rule of Sukarno, and the political violence and upheavel of the times (1965). He is searching for a scoop and naturally falls in love with Weaver in the process. Their romance is intensified by the surrounding danger. The most hauntingly beautiful quality of the movie is provided by the cinematography and direction. It is a knockout in visual memory-making. It produces strange vibes and conjures flashbacks, long after viewing.
