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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Production Notes
Clint Eastwood's film Unforgiven is an exciting modern classic that rode off with four 1992 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Director. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," Eastwood told the Los Angeles Times. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired, down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. Richard Harris is an ill-fated interloper, a colorful killer-for-hire called English Bob. Best Supporting Actor winner Gene Hackman is the sly and brutal local sheriff whose brand of law enforcement ranges from unconventional to ruthless. Big trouble is coming to Big Whiskey.
"Jack N. Green's panoramic cinematography and Lennie Niehaus' spare score help greatly, and so does a cast that's close to unimprovable." John Hartl, Film.com
"Eastwood's best movie and the best Western by anybody in over 20 years." Mike Clark, USA Today
"One of the finest Westerns ever made." Jim Svejda, KNX/CBS-TV
Editor's Note
In Clint Eastwood's acclaimed Western, Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), a sadistic, dictatorial sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, doling out his own brand of due process as he sees fit. When he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel, one of whom has been slashed by a client, the women hire Bill Munny (Eastwood), a reformed gunslinger, to gain vengeance. However, Munny must contend with his new moral code in the face of revisiting the life he left behind. Eastwood's directorial masterpiece also stars Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris.
Plot Summary
Clint Eastwood's tenth western and sixteenth directorial effort explores the darker side of the myths of the old west. When retired gunslinger Bill Munny accepts a $500 offer to shoot two men who viciously knifed a prostitute, he discovers just how difficult it is to escape his past as a notorious outlaw.
| Features | French Subtitles | | Spanish Subtitles | | 2 Theatrical Trailers | | Scene Access | | English Subtitles | | Dolby Digital 5.1 | | Interactive Menus | | Production Notes |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 8/22/1997 |
| Running Time: 131 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1992 | | Catalog ID: 12531 | | UPC: 00085391253129 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1993) |  | Clint Eastwood, Winner, Best Picture | | Clint Eastwood, Winner, Best Director | | Gene Hackman, Winner, Best Supporting Actor | | Joel Cox, Winner, Best Film Editing | |
Golden Globe (1993) | | Clint Eastwood, Winner, Best Director | | Gene Hackman, Winner, Best Supproting Actor |
| Memorable Quotes| "I ain't like that no more."----Bill Munny (Clint Eastwood) |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Time has been good to Clint Eastwood....The cast is splendid..." 08/07/1992 p.C1USA Today
"...The film is full of sly or amusing touches....Deftly placed emotional moments..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars 08/07/1992 p.1D Entertainment Weekly
"...Engaging....Enjoy it for the handsome wide-screen vistas, the interplay of the actors, the classical sweep of its story line..." 08/14/1993 p.36-7 Chicago Sun-Times
"...The screenplay by David Webb Peoples has dialogue as spare and evocative as Hemingway..." 12/27/1992 p.3 Total Film
"Eastwood's a true icon..." 03/01/2004 p.9 Uncut
"[An] intense, complex meditation on the corrupting nature of violence." 02/01/2003 p.106 Washington Post 9 of 10
...exults in the hard-riding romanticism of classic Westerns, but it takes revisionist stock too. It dismounts at places usually left in the dust--the oppressed lot of women, the loneliness of untended children, adult illiteracy and the horrible last moments of the dying. Never did deaths count so much in a gun-slinging drama; never did shooting a man come so hard. - Desson Howe
Leonard Maltin's Movie And Video Guide 8 of 10
Powerful examination of morality and hypocrisy in the Old West--and the impact of killing... Exquisitely shot by Jack N. Green. - Leonard Maltin
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