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List Price: $12.98 Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $0.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 24 July, 1974 DVD Release : 16 January, 2001 |
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Death Wish description This controversial, 1974 drama exploits urban paranoia and presents vigilantism as cathartic release. But it is also a captivating, Everyman-ish story of a New Yorker who goes through a sea change after crime depletes his family, and who runs afoul of the law while taking it into his own hands. Charles Bronson stars as the vengeance-seeking urban warrior who goes on a punk-killing spree after his wife and daughter are attacked by intruders. Director Michael Winner (The Wicked Lady) shamelessly builds upon audience identification with Bronson's rage, but he also makes an interesting story out of the latter's tug-of-war with disapproving police. It's an unpleasant film all around, but not nearly as bad as its horrifying, numerous sequels. Watch for a very young Jeff Goldblum--in this, his second movie--as one of the assailants of Bronson's loved ones. --Tom Keogh |
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| [...] I guess nobody told him that you are supposed to let the system handle criminals and hand out punishments. This movie is about a man who sees his wife and daughter victimized by street thugs. His wife is killed and his daughter is mentally damaged by the event. The police don't seem to provide any assistance so he takes the law into his own hands. Eventually the police catch on to his secret operations against street criminals, but they don't arrest him, they simply advise him to move away. This is where the Death Wish sequels pick up. Great movie with a great icon. | |
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