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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: February 29, 2000
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Universal Studios
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Dual Layer
- Collectors Edition
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 4.1 - English
- Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - French
- Additional Release Material:
- Cast and Filmmakers Bios
- Feature Commentary with Director Sydney Pollack
- Song of Africa
- Trailers: Theatrical
- Universal Web Links
- Text/Photo Galleries:
- Production Notes
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Robert Redford & Meryl Streep | |
| Performer: | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Gough & Iman | |
| Directed by | Sydney Pollack | |
| Edited by | Pembroke Herring, Sheldon Kahn, Fredric Steinkamp & William Steinkamp | |
| Screenwriting by | Kurt Luedtke | |
| Composition by | John Barry | |
| Produced by | Sydney Pollack | |
| Director of Photography: | David Watkin |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Kurt Luedtke
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Cinematography: David Watkin
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Director: Sydney Pollack
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Original Score: John Barry
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Picture
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Sound
Entertainment Reviews:
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83%
Luedtke and Pollack bought these high-priced literary sources only to chuck them for a conventional, largely fictionalized movie romance.
People Magazine
...[Streep creates] a Karen Blixen of such intelligence, intensity and obsessiveness that you can believe she would one day...write the cool, dark, bewitching prose...
New York Times
The scale of its protagonist's obsessiveness is what gives Out of Africa its splendor.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 2.5/4 --
My basic problem with this otherwise sumptuous and well-acted film is that I never was able to accept Redford in character.
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Chicago Tribune
Rating: 4/5 --
What the movie loses in emotional realism, it gains in sheer epic audacity.
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Radio Times
...A sensitive, enveloping romantic tragedy...
Variety
Out of Africa is a splendid example of that persistent genre, the coffeetable movie. It's big, beautiful, and imposing. But there isn't much to it, and pretty pictures -- replacing ideas, not supporting them -- are its only real attraction.
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Christian Science Monitor
Product Description:
Adapted from Isak Dinesen's novel, OUT OF AFRICA, this film plaintively tells the story of two troubled adults who meet and fall in love in the African wilderness. Karen Blixen-Flecke (Meryl Streep) is a modern woman, caught in the shortcomings of a practical marriage. Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) is a gallant British hunter, lonely, but unable to commit. As they two meet and begin a torrid affair, they set out on an epic adventure in the badlands of Africa--an adventure that real-life Karen Blixen-Flecke would later novelize under the pen name Isak Dinesen.
Sydney Pollack's opus, OUT OF AFRICA, is a full, visually compelling film. Its storyline evokes a plethora of emotions, ranging from fear and loathing to hope and the elation of love. Robert Redford and Meryl Streep are electric as the two damaged infidels in love. A key American film, OUT OF AFRICA is not to be missed.
Sydney Pollack's opus, OUT OF AFRICA, is a full, visually compelling film. Its storyline evokes a plethora of emotions, ranging from fear and loathing to hope and the elation of love. Robert Redford and Meryl Streep are electric as the two damaged infidels in love. A key American film, OUT OF AFRICA is not to be missed.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Romance
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True Story
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Wilderness
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Love Story
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Recommended
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Character Study
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Period Piece
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Africa
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Theatrical Release
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Romances
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Essential Cinema
Production Notes:
- Theatrical release: February 21, 1986.
- Filmed on location in Kenya and Northeast England.
- The book OUT OF AFRICA is Danish writer Isak Dinesen's (her real name was Karen Blixen) account of her life in British East Africa from 1913 to 1931.
- "He even took the gramophone on safari. Three rifles, supplies for a month, and Mozart."--Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep)
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- UPC: 025192025020
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