The Way Back PG-13
Their escape was just the beginning.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 19, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell & Jim Sturgess | |
| Directed by | Peter Weir | |
| Screenwriting by | Peter Weir & Keith Clarke | |
| Composition by | Burkhard Dallwitz | |
| Director of Photography: | Russell Boyd |
Entertainment Reviews:
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3.5 stars out of 4 -- It's the journey that counts, and Weir makes you feel it in your bones....[A]n artful tale of survival against the elements...
Rolling Stone
THE WAY BACK demands to be seen on the largest possible screen, the better to experience the way it visualizes an essential motivating tension between the small-scale intimacy and drama of its characters and the vast enormity of its landscapes.
Los Angeles Times
A gorgeously mounted epic that for all its virtues feels maddeningly remote.
Philadelphia Weekly
Rating: 3.5/5 --
An exceptional adventure story from one of the founding fathers of Australia's modern cinema.
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The Age (Australia)
Working with his frequent cinematographer, Russell Boyd, as well as a crack sound crew, Mr. Weir makes the most of his stunning natural set...
New York Times
Peter Weir makes a partial return to form with THE WAY BACK. Like some of his best films, it features characters ensnared in the brutalities of politics and war...
Film Comment
Rating: 3/5 --
It's about the landscapes and backdrops. They provide a great diversion away from the poor dialogue and the bluntly heroic characters.
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Product Description:
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a World War II-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival. Adapted from author Slavomir Rawicz's gripping memoir THE LONG WALK: THE TRUE STORY OF A TREK TO FREEDOM, writer/director Peter Weir's sweeping POW drama stars Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, and Saoirse Ronan.
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- Sales Rank: 51,399
- UPC: 014381693829
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