The Good Shepherd R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 3, 2007
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie & Robert De Niro | |
Performer: | Joe Pesci, Keir Dullea, Alec Baldwin, Michael Gambon, Billy Crudup, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Eddie Redmayne & John Turturro | |
Directed by | Robert De Niro | |
Edited by | Tariq Anwar | |
Screenwriting by | Eric Roth | |
Composition by | Bruce Fowler & Marcelo Zarvos | |
Produced by | Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro & James G. Robinson | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Richardson | |
Executive Production by | Francis Ford Coppola, Chris Brigham, David C. Robinson & Guy McElwaine |
Entertainment Reviews:
Intelligent, cleverly written and extraordinarily well crafted and performed, THE GOOD SHEPHERD boasts a subtlety and depth you won't find in the world of Jason Bourne or James Bond.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Deliberately paced, but mesmerizingly so, creating a shadowy world where paranoia and deception are treated as the norm.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
[De Niro] proves here that - like Clint Eastwood - he can direct a mature, questioning film without didacticism or pomp.
Uncut
Rating: 4/4 --
As a punishingly ambiguous and astonishingly thorough tragedy, "The Good Shepherd" shows that emotions as human as any errors can undermine intelligence and questions whether God and country alone can be enough for a man's soul.
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The Film Yap
Rating: 2/5 --
A very dark, murky film, resentfully critical of the dysfunctional CIA family.
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Guardian
Rating: 3/5 --
Not a film everyone will like. But those who do will appreciate De Niro's insistence on accurate detail.
London Evening Standard
A isappointing hybrid that's too bloated, diffuse and tedious to work as a regular length movie -- yet has not enough emotional range or narrative focus to be considered a great epic drama.
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Dark Horizons
Product Description:
With THE GOOD SHEPHERD, Robert De Niro (A BRONX TALE) makes an ambitious return to the director's chair. A labor of love for Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (FORREST GUMP), the film tells an epic, fictionalized account of how the Central Intelligence Agency was born. Matt Damon plays Edward Wilson, a reserved young man who graduated from Yale in the late 1930s. His membership in the exclusive, hidden Skull and Bones society led him away from poetry and into a relationship with the federal government, who recruited him to help them on several covert operations. Roth's script alternates between Wilson's gradual emergence as a genuine government operative in the early 1940s and the infamous Bay of Pigs conflict in the early 1960s. Along the way, he has a sweet romance with a pretty deaf girl (a sparkling Tammy Blanchard) and ends up marrying the woman he impregnates (Angelina Jolie) out of a strong sense of duty. Throughout the film, the emergence of a mysterious tape haunts Wilson, who is determined to uncover the truth behind a leak in his secret organization.
Production designer Jeannine Claudia Oppewall (L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN) and costume designer Ann Roth (THE ENGLISH PATIENT, THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY) faithfully recreate these earlier periods in American history, while the imagery of Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson (J.F.K., THE AVIATOR) casts a warm, stately glow upon De Niro's assembled cast of luminaries (including Alec Baldwin, Michael Gambon, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, and Joe Pesci). The result is a production that recalls Francis Ford Coppola's THE CONVERSATION and Steven Spielberg's MUNICH.
Production designer Jeannine Claudia Oppewall (L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN) and costume designer Ann Roth (THE ENGLISH PATIENT, THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY) faithfully recreate these earlier periods in American history, while the imagery of Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson (J.F.K., THE AVIATOR) casts a warm, stately glow upon De Niro's assembled cast of luminaries (including Alec Baldwin, Michael Gambon, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, and Joe Pesci). The result is a production that recalls Francis Ford Coppola's THE CONVERSATION and Steven Spielberg's MUNICH.
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