Deliverance

Tookey's Rating
	9 /10

Average Rating
	8.82 /10

Starring
Jon Voight , Burt Reynolds , Ned Beatty
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Directed by: John Boorman
Written by: James Dickey , from his novel

Released:	1972

Genre:	DRAMA ACTION ADVENTURE THRILLER

Origin:	US

Length:	109

Four businessmen go on the sort of canoe holiday you won't find at Thomas Cook's.

Reviewed by Chris Tookey

John Boorman's gripping, nightmarish movie is both repulsive and compulsive: thematically, a combination of Lord Of The Flies and Straw Dogs. Jon Voight is excellent as the mild chap who learns to survive in the wild; and the movie helped make Burt Reynolds a star.

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