STAR RATINGS EXPLAINED

Classic

Excellent

Good

Fair

Tragic

FILM DETAILS

Certificate PG

Cast Mel Gibson Sigourney Weaver Linda Hunt

Directors Peter Weir

Screenwriters Peter Weir CJ Koch

Running Time 111 minutes

The Year Of Living Dangerously (PG)

Plot
Taking his first assignment, foreign correspondent Guy Hamilton lands in an Indonesia on the verge of revolution. Utilising the contacts of his photographer, Billy Kwan, who can bring him close to the action, as well as his affair with a female diplomat, he becomes the hottest reporter around. But the crises will to a point where he can no longer simply report the news.

Verdict
Exotic love and war, guns and poetry, this delivers all the right ingrediends for to cook up a truly terrific war drama.


Reviewer: Ian Nathan

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