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The Bounty (1984)

Director: Roger Donaldson

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From Time Out Film Guide

Definitely not a remake of the MGM classic, but a Robert Bolt-scripted meditation on the conflict between Bligh's puritanism and Christian's surrender to Polynesian paganism. The floggings and sadism are thus kept to a minimum, with Hopkins' Bligh emerging less as a hissable villain than as a credibly sympathetic but flawed character. It's all a brave try, though Gibson is perhaps not up to the demands of a Christian's progress from naive rating to self-loathing exile, and Donaldson's direction often verges on the stolid.

Author: GA 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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  • Raya said...
    Posted on Jan 24 2008 04:11 it was one of the most attractive movie in my life, I saw it when i was 12 years old , and the second time i have seen it was ysterday when i was 34 years old, and still in the same attraction.
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Cast & crew

Director: Roger Donaldson

Producer: Bernard Williams

Cast: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Philip Davis, Liam Neeson full cast

Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers

Duration: 133 mins


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