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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 13, 2003
- Originally Released: 1986
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert De Niro & Jeremy Irons | |
Performer: | Liam Neeson, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi, Chuck Low & Ronald Pickup | |
Directed by | Roland Joffé | |
Edited by | Jim Clark | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Bolt | |
Composition by | Ennio Morricone | |
Cinematography by | Chris Menges |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1986 -
Best Cinematography: Chris Menges
Cannes 1986 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
"The Mission" is everything a movie should be -- magnificently produced, epic in scope, serious in theme -- everything, that is, but good.
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Washington Post
A singularly lumpy sort of movie.
New York Times
The two principal actors, Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons, work hard to animate their parts. But there is little to do. The Mission is probably the first film in which De Niro gives a bland, uninteresting performance.
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Variety
...Earnest in tone, melancholic in mood....If your tear ducts aren't tingling as its credits roll, check your soul...
Total Film
Rating: 2.5/4 --
There isn't a moment in The Mission that is not watchable, but the moments don't add up to a coherent narrative.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 6/10 --
...a little too pious for its own good. Be that as it may, the movie's heart is in the right place.
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Movie Metropolis
...Ennio Morricone's famous score sounds appropriately mystical and majestic...
Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
A visually stunning epic, THE MISSION recounts the true story of two men--a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons)--both Jesuit missionaries who defied the colonial forces of mighty Spain and Portugal to save an Indian tribe from slavery in mid-18th-century South America. Mendoza (De Niro) is a slave trader and colonial imperialist who murdered his own brother (Aidan Quinn) and seeks penance for his sins by becomining a missionary at Father Gabriel's (Irons) mountaintop mission; Gabriel is a devout and idealistic man who extols nonviolence and peaceful interaction with the natives and colonialists. Despite their differences, the two men must unite to save the mission when Spain, Portugal, and the Catholic church begin negotiating their boundaries in the area--negotiations that will affect both the freedom of the natives and the well-being of the Jesuit missionaries who have set up safe havens for them. Director Roland Joffé's sweeping masterpiece is a haunting account of the unjust treatment of the Guarani Indians of South America and the men who fought desperately, in very different ways, to save them. The film features a mezmerizing musical score by Ennio Morricone that weaves a stunning combination of church choirs and native Indian panpipes into the lush images of the Brazilian rainforest.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Indians
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Race Relations
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Epic
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Tragedy
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- Sales Rank: 2,003
- UPC: 085392349722
- Shipping Weight: 0.37/lbs (approx)
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