One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War, Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class steel workers and notorious for its ahistorical use of Russian roulette in the Vietnam sequences. Structured in five sections contrasting home and war, the film opens in Clairton, PA, as Mike, Nick, and Stan celebrate the wedding of their friend Steve (John Savage) and go on a final deer hunt before the men leave for Vietnam. Mike returns alone to Clairton a changed man, as he rejects the killing of the deer hunt and finds solace with Nick's old girlfriend Linda . Disgusted by the antics of his male cohorts at home, Mike decides to bring Steve back from a veterans' hospital, and he returns to Saigon to find Nick.

STARS.........: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Cazale DIRECTOR......: Michael Cimino WRITERS.......: Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn GENRE.........: War, Drama METASCORE.....: 81 TOMATOMETER...: 94 IMDB RATING...: 8.1/10 273,676 votes IMDB LINK.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077416 RUNTIME.......: 3h 03mn SIZE..........: 7.17 GB VIDEO CODEC...: HEVC (Main@L4) BITRATE.......: 4500 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION....: 1920x816 ASPECT RATIO..: 2.35:1 FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps AUDIO1........: English E-AC3 5.1 640kbps AUDIO2........: AAC Stereo 256kbps CVBR AUDIO3........: Commentary by Michael Cimino AUDIO4........: Commentary with George Stevens Jr. and Ivan Moffat SUBTITLES.....: ENG SOURCE........: Studio Canal 40th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray ENCODED BY....: Sartre ENCODE DATE...: 2018-09-08

Extras •Interview with Michael Cimino •Realizing The Deer Hunter •Shooting The Deer Hunter •Playing The Deer Hunter •Deleted and Extended Scenes •Interview with David Thomson