The Way Back (Blu-ray) PG-13

Their escape was just the beginning.
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  • 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

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Certified Fresh74%

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Total Count: 137

Upright72%

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... a placid, almost pleasant film, so reluctant to offend that it fails to engage. Full Review
Newsweek
Feb 7, 2018
Weir gives the film an epic scope, framing his characters against giant, imposing vistas that highlight how inconsequential they appear against the vastness of nature.
A.V. Club
Jan 20, 2011
Weir has always loved atmospheric locales and group dynamics, and here he makes the most of both Full Review
Newsday
Feb 18, 2011
There are some meticulous performances among the weary plodders...Jim Sturgess embodies monomaniacal focus as the group's leader Janusz...
Sight and Sound
Feb 1, 2011
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
Dec 29, 2010
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. Full Review
The List
Nov 5, 2018
[T]here's cumulative power in the tale, part prison break and part survival epic....Russell Boyd did the spectacular cinematography.
Wall Street Journal
Jan 21, 2011

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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