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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 19, 2010
- Originally Released: 1983
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Matthew Modine, Michael Wright & David Alan Grier | |
Performer: | Guy Boyd, George Dzundza & Mitchell Lichtenstein | |
Directed by | Robert Altman | |
Screenplay by | David Rabe | |
Director of Photography: | Pierre Mignot |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
The ensemble cast comes up smart with some fine spontaneous performances.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he claustrophobia intensifies. Race and class issues boil to the surface. Gripping.
Uncut
[I]t benefits from an excellent cast and a few purely Altman moments... -- Grade: B-
A.V. Club
... a different kind of filmed theater that combines the intimacy of the original play with a cinematic expressiveness.
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Seanax.com
Rating: 2/5 --
It goes partway toward realizing the full effect of a stage play as a film, then botches the job by the overabundant use of film techniques, which dismember what should be an ensemble performance.
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
What elevates the film above a dated topical discussion is Altman's imagining of the army barracks as a hothouse environment where tensions and fears play out in oddly manic outbursts%u2014and his direction of his actors accordingly.
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Slant Magazine
Sure it's searing and intense, but so is a microwave oven.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Robert Altman follows up his critically acclaimed film of the theatre piece COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN with this adaptation of David Rabe's savage play. STREAMERS takes place in a desolate Vietnam-era Army barracks where a group of disparate young recruits wait nervously for their orders. Billy (Matthew Modine) and Roger (David Alan Grier) have learned to ignore their racial differences and become good friends. Richie (Mitchell Lichtenstein) is an effeminate soldier whose personality disarms the others, and when Carlyle (Michael Wright), an angry black man, arrives, the simmering tensions come to a boil. He berates Roger for living in a white barracks, and crudely exposes Richie's homosexuality. When drunken officer Cokes (George Dzundza) tries to calm the quarreling soldiers, Carlyle is driven to destructive behavior. Placing the characters in a purgatory-like locale where death and violence is imminent, Rabe's screenplay crackles with the anger, fear, and confusion of a group of young men at a pivotal moment in their lives. Altman, notorious for allowing his actors to improvise, proves with STREAMERS that he also can adhere to a tightly woven script, resulting in a tense, uncompromising drama.