Storyline
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Directors
Cast
Bill McKinney, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Burt Reynolds, Billy Redden, Charley Boorman, Ed Ramey, Seamon Glass, Randall Deal, Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward, Lewis Crone, Ken Keener, Johnny Popwell, John Fowler, Kathy Rickman, Louise Coldren, Pete Ware, James Dickey, Macon McCalman, Hoyt Pollard, Belinda Beatty
Trailer
Reviews
100
Empire
The gorgeous backdrop of the film makes the violence and darkness even more disturbing - but this is more than just a horror film. There's real substance in themes, performances and John Boorman's superb direction.
100
Slant Magazine
Dickey taps into that stark mortal terror of abandoning control, where to become a wild man is somehow a form of connection.
100
For all the furious excitement of its river-rafting sequences, and the harshness and humiliation of its explosive central rape scene, Deliverance is an elegiac movie, mourning the rural mountain culture soon to be inundated by a new hydro-electric dam.
91
Deliverance is a film about finding the place where ideas mean less than instinct.
90
Each of the four lead performances is exceptional, none more so than Burt Reynolds' beefy, supercilious Lewis.
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