# Deliverance (1972)

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**Runtime**: 109 min
**Genres**: Drama, Adventure, Thriller
**Directed by**: John Boorman
**Written by**: James Dickey
**Starring**: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Ed Ramey, Billy Redden

> *What did happen on the Cahulawassee River?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

North Georgia. Fall. An aluminum canoe scrapes rock. Four city dwellers test their grit against a river soon to be dammed. One man’s will to dominate nature becomes a brutal fight for survival against men nature made savage. A grim survivalist benchmark of New Hollywood machismo.

**Mood tags**: dread, gut-punch, raw

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