The Deer Hunter

IMDb

8.1/10

Rated

R

The Deer Hunter is a 1978 war drama directed by Michael Cimino that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage play Michael, Nick and Steven, friends from a Pennsylvania steel town who celebrate a joyful wedding and one last deer hunt before shipping out to Vietnam. Captured and forced into brutal games of chance, they return as very different men. Meryl Streep plays Linda, the woman caught between Michael and Nick, in a long and haunting portrait of friendship and loss.

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