Deterrence R

Every President has a defining moment. Walter Emerson is about to have his.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 7, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1999
  • Label: Paramount

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User Ratings: 1,039
Rating: D -- The plot twists fall about as weightily as the fake snow. Full Review
Entertainment Weekly
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Lurie quickly glazes over one important bit of backstory in the early going, a point that is crucial to understand some motivation. Full Review
TheMovieReport.com
Jul 16, 2005
Rating: 4/5 -- Taut and intense. Pollak is outstanding.
Needcoffee.com
Mar 26, 2004
...[With] dialogue of substance....We're absorbed in the urgent debate that it inspires....It's surprisingly good...
Chicago Sun-Times
Mar 17, 2000
...DETERRENCE is a crackling exercise in international gamesmanship....Hutton is marvelously alert...
Los Angeles Times
Mar 10, 2000
Rating: 3/5 -- A president wrestles with another Iraq war. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Dec 22, 2010
Rating: 4 -- he exciting thing about Deterrence is that *we* are the big scary bad guy who is acting irrationally - and yet the conclusion explains everything.
Cinerina
Jun 15, 2001

Product Description:

The year is 2008 and President Walter Emerson (Kevin Pollak) is stranded in a Colorado diner in the middle of a blizzard. Suddenly, news arrives that Iraq has invaded Kuwait, and threatens the rest of the Middle East with chemical and biological weapons. With most of the U.S. armed forces stuck in a tense military stand-off in Korea, the President decides he has only one option: he announces on television that he will launch a nuclear attack on Baghdad unless Iraq backs down. While the President's advisors try to figure out a diplomatic solution, the situation in the diner gets increasingly tense, and the global crisis escalates until global nuclear war is threatened. DETERRENCE is a tense military thriller with several unique twists and turns and an intelligent plot guaranteed to provoke debate. Director and former film critic Rod Lurie makes good use of a low budget thanks to imaginative direction and strong performances from the cast, including Timothy Hutton and Sheryl Lee Ralph as the President's advisors. While most thrillers are content to provide excitement, DETERRENCE combines tense political thrills with a subtle but strong position on global nuclear weapons.

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