Breaker Morant (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) PG
A powerful true story of bitter revenge...
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 22, 2015
- Originally Released: 1980
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson & Bryan Brown | |
Performer: | John Waters, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Terence Donovan, Vincent Ball, Chris Haywood, Russell Kiefel, Lewis Fitz-Gerald & Rod Mullinar | |
Directed by | Bruce Beresford | |
Edited by | William Anderson | |
Screenplay by | Bruce Beresford, David Stevens & Jonathan Hardy | |
Cinematography by | Donald McAlpine | |
Produced by | Matthew Carroll |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Memorable Aussie epic with Edward Woodward particularly good.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Based on a true story but playing like a close cousin to Stanley Kubrick's 1957 masterpiece Paths of Glory.
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Creative Loafing
Breaker Morant is a top-notch film about an injustice in the annals of military history.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 4/5 --
A superb war movie with an unsettling moral.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
...Genuinely, surprisingly affecting...
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Woodward delivers a fine performance as the soft-spoken commander, Brown is effectively hot-tempered and Fitz-Gerald is terrifically naïve.
Cinema Sight
Rating: 4/5 --
The film all Australian films since have tried to live up to - and couldn't
Moviehole
Product Description:
One of a crop of impressive films to arrive from Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, BREAKER MORANT marked Bruce Beresford as a director to watch. Based on a play by Kenneth G. Ross, the film is a tersely dramatic account of the true story of the court-martial of three soldiers attached to the Bushveld Carbineers, a guerrilla warfare unit of the British army that operated during the Boer War (1899-1902). Edward Woodward stars as Lt. Harry "Breaker" Morant, the primus inter pares of this trio that includes Lt. Peter Handcock (Bryan Brown) and Lt. George Witton (Lewis Fitzgerald). Attorney Major J.F. Thomas (Jack Thompson) is given only one day to mount a defense of the officers, who have been charged with the death of Boer prisoners and a German minister. Weaving flashbacks into the trial proceedings, Beresford tells the story of the controversial killing, an act of revenge against the Boers for having killed and mutilated a close friend of Morant's. While the young Witton fears for his life, Morant and Handcock display only a caustically witty stoicism as they await the trial's outcome. Superbly executed in every area, the film is a memorable evocation of the hypocrisy of empire.
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- Sales Rank: 58,538
- UPC: 715515156714
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