| | | "4 Academy Awards, Including Best Piucture, Best Director, Film Editing & Best Supporting Actor."
Features: HD DVD
Unforgiven is a modern classic that "summarizes everything I feel about the Western," director/star Clint Eastwood told the Los Angeles Times. This American Film Institute Top 100 American Movies selection rode off with four 1992 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman) and Editing (Joel Cox). Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty. Richard Harris is an ill-fated killer-for-hire. And Hackman is a lawman of sly charm...and chilling brutality. Unforgiven is "a Western for the ages" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times).
"...a cast that's close to unimprovable." John Hartl, Film.com
"A Western for the ages..." Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"Powerful examination of morality and hypocrisy...Exquisitely shot by Jack N. Green." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"Eastwood's best movie--and the best Western by anybody in over 20 years." Mike Clark, USA Today
"...a worthy film to grace the shelves of any Western aficionado or fan of Clint Eastwood." Nicholas Sylvain, DVD Verdict
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 | 4 Documentaries: All On Accounta Pullin' A Trigger, Eastwood & Co. - Making Unforgiven, Eastwood...A Star, & Eastwood On Eastwood | | Audio Commentary By Eastwood Biographer Richard Schickel | | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo | | Classic Maverick Episode: Duel At Sundown | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Interactive Menus | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | This Is An HD-DVD Made For HD-DVD Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 5/16/2006 |
| Running Time: 133 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1992 | | Catalog ID: 80948 | | UPC: 00012569809482 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.40:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Winner (1993) | | | Golden Globe, Clint Eastwood, Best Director - Motion Picture | | | Golden Globe, Gene Hackman, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | |
Nominee (1993) | | | Golden Globe, Unforgiven, Best Motion Picture - Drama | |
Winner (1993) | | | Oscar, Clint Eastwood, Best Picture | | | Oscar, Clint Eastwood, Best Director | | | Oscar, Gene Hackman, Best Actor in a Supporting Role | | | Oscar, Joel Cox, Best Film Editing |
| 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 Reel.com 10 of 10
Nearly every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences faces some amount of controversy over its choice for Best Picture. But occasionally, the Oscar goes to a film that is, without a doubt, worthy of that honor. Unforgiven is just such a picture - a gripping dissertation on the nature of violence and Clint Eastwood's directorial masterpiece...The brilliance of Unforgiven lies in the perfect pairing of a sublimely crafted screenplay - which Eastwood left virtually untouched - and a director with the right sensibility to handle the material...Unforgiven is often labeled a revisionist Western, and while this is true, its strength comes not from its spin on the specific genre, but from its dramatic impact. - Mary Kalin-Casey
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
The film reflects a passing era even in its visual style. The opening shot is of a house, a tree, and a man at a graveside. The sun is setting, on this man and the era he represents...If Clint Eastwood had not been a star, he would still figure as a major director, with important work in the Western, action and comedy genres, and unique films like "Bird" (1988), his biography of the saxophonist Charlie Parker, the love story "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995), and the wonderful "A Perfect World" (1993), which seems to be about a hunt for an escaped convict, but seems oddly distanced from the chase, and more concerned with the values and histories of the characters. It has the elements of a crime picture, but the freedom of an art film. "Unforgiven," too, uses a genre as a way to study human nature. - Roger Ebert
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