The MissionThe Mission
starring: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi directed by: Roland Joffé List Price: $14.98 Price: $4.99 You Save: $9.99 (67%)Prices subject to change. See similar products Read customer reviews Related Items:
Collectible Price: $14.98 Third Party New Price: $4.99 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300271203 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 630027120X Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: December 04, 1992 Running Time: 125 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 1986
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) directs this fuzzy effort at a David Lean-like epic without David Lean's sense of emotional proportion. Lean's most important screenwriting collaborator, Robert Bolt, in fact wrote The Mission, which concerns a Jesuit missionary (Jeremy Irons) who establishes a church in the hostile jungles of Brazil and then finds his work threatened by greed and political forces among his superiors. Robert De Niro is briefly effective as a callous soldier who kills his own brother and then turns to Irons's character to oversee his penance and conversion to the clergy. The narrative and dramatic forces at work in this movie should be more stirring and powerful than they are--the problem being that Joffé is too removed from them to allow us in. --Tom Keogh Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - powerful movieThe Mission gives the viewer a look into the exploitation of South America by Europeans. A missionary and a slave trader's lives become intertwined. The message is powerful and the music is haunting. Beautiful movie. Rating: - The MissionI watched The Mission in a class that I'm currently taking about the Literature of Human Rights in Latin America. The Mission is about the colonial time in South America and shows the treatment of indigenous people and human rights. If we really ... Read More Rating: - The MissionThis movie is probably my all time favorite. I have watched it over and over again. The music is thrilling, gentle, and sad. Most moving performances. I have the sound track also, it is most enjoyable. It is a lesson in life. BRAVO! Rating: - Worth watching on so many levelsSo much has been written about The Mission and it has received so many plaudits, that it is redundant to re-list them here. Suffice it to say that this film remains hugely worth watching on every significant level: photography, musical score, acting, ... Read More Rating:  - Panoramic Morality TaleI was interested in seeing "The Mission" when it first came out. I didn't realize that it would take over 20 years before I finally was able to take it in. It seems to have aged well but, then, most historical epics usually do. I was overwelmed by ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Related Items:
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