| | | "Winner of Seven Academy Awards, Including Best Picture."
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, French, Subtitled
A "truly spectacular" (The New York Times) film that combines action, romance and breathtaking adventure, Dances with Wolves is "a cinematic masterpiece" (American Movie Classics) that is nothing short of "a triumph" (Roger Ebert)!Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choiceone that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation.
"An old-fashioned movie with a smart, contemporary perspective." Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle
"It's impossible to call it anything but epic..." Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times
"Costner's directing style is fresh and assured." Variety
Editor's Note
Actor Kevin Costner made his debut behind the camera--and won an Oscar for Best Director--with this celebrated epic. In 1865, Civil War hero Lt. John Dunbar (Costner) asks to be reassigned to the western frontier before it disappears. At his isolated post he develops a relationship with the peaceful Lakota Sioux and a white woman (an excellent, Oscar-nominated Mary McDonnell) who lives among them, finding greater kinship with them than with his own people. But his life with the Sioux is threatened when the Army appears, and Dunbar must decide where his loyalties truly lie. Co-starring Graham Greene, DANCES WITH WOLVES boasts seven Academy Award wins and another five nominations.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 1/1/2037 |
| Running Time: 236 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1990 | | Catalog ID: 15727 | | UPC: 00027616157270 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Winner (1991) | | | Oscar, Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner, Best Picture | | | Oscar, Kevin Costner, Best Director | | | Oscar, Michael Blake, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | | | Oscar, Russell Williams, Jr., et. al., Best Sound | | | Oscar, John Barry, Best Music, Original Score | | | Oscar, Neil Travis, Best Film Editing | | | Oscar, Dean Semler, Best Cinematography |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...The film is heartfelt and engrossing....DANCES WITH WOLVES is an epic that breathes. And it's a beauty..." 11/29/1990 p.120-1Los Angeles Times
"...Stirringly fine....DANCES WITH WOLVES is a clear-eyed vision....This is a film with a pure ring to it..." 11/21/1990 p.F1 Premiere
"...[A] remarkable picture....[With] heart-stopping images of the American West..." 06/01/2003 p.97 Entertainment Weekly
"...WOLVES is a filmmaking tour de force..." 05/23/2003 p.59 Total Film
"...[With] fantastic photography....Genuinely epic in scope..." 05/01/2000 p.118 Uncut
"Rich characterisations are balanced by awesome widescreen backdrops." 12/01/2004 p.183 Washington Post 10 of 10
Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves is a stunning combination of all-American boyishness and sweeping grandeur--it's the movies' first regular-guy epic. It's also one of the movies' most impressive directorial debuts and one of the year's most satisfying and audaciously entertaining films. From the picture's opening shots, it's clear that this new director has a thrilling command of his tools. This picture isn't just competently directed, it's masterfully directed. - Hal Hinson
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
In 1985, before he was a star, Costner played a featured role in a good Western called Silverado simply because he wanted to be in a Western. Now he has realized his dream again by making one of the best Westerns I've seen. The movie makes amends, of a sort, for hundreds of racist and small-minded Westerns that went before it. By allowing the Sioux to speak in their own tongue, by entering their villages and observing their ways, it sees them as people, not as whooping savages in the sights of an Army rifle. This is one of the year's best films. - Roger Ebert
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