Deliverance

Theatrical - Wide 1972-07-30

Cast Burt Reynolds Jon Voight Ned Beatty Ronny Cox
Directed by John Boorman
Written by James Dickey

Genres: Adventure Thriller

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On a weekend canoeing trip down a river in the Georgia back country, four urban businessmen enter a nightmare in which both nature and mankind conspire to send them through a crucible of danger and degradation in which their lives and... See more perhaps even their souls are put at horrendous risk.

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