Unforgiven | 
| Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  282 reviews
Sales Rank: 1624
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 131 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5.6 x 0.6
MPN: WARD12531D
ISBN: 0790729644
UPC: 085391253129
EAN: 9780790729640
ASIN: 0790729644
Theatrical Release Date: August 7, 1992
Release Date: March 26, 1997
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Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalized a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colorful role for Richard Harris, it's arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement. --Jeff Shannon
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Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalized a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colorful role for Richard Harris, it's arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement. The digital video disc offers standard and widescreen formats and a remastered soundtrack. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
Retired old west gunslinger william munny reluctantly takes on one last job with the help of his old partner and a young man. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 01/16/2007 Starring: Clint Eastwood Gene Hackman Run time: 131 minutes Rating: R
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 They Don't Make 'Em Like This Anymore June 28, 2009
Choice Critic (Highland, IN)
This is the rare, modern western masterpiece that Hollywood seems otherwise incapable of producing anymore. The plot is spare. A notorious ex-killer, William Munny (Clint Eastwood), reformed by his now-deceased wife, is running an unsuccessful pig farm when he is recruited by an aspiring young gun, Kid Schofield (James Woolvet).
Kid wants Munny to join him to kill two ranch hands in order to collect a $500 bounty. The reward is offered by the prostitutes of a brothel. One of the ranch hands has disfigured the face of one of their girls. Reluctant at first because of the memory of his beloved wife, Munny decides to join the Kid in order to collect the money in order to try to save his farm and provide for two children. Munny then recruits his friend, former partner, and expert rifleman Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman).
Gene Hackman, as "Little Bill", the town sheriff of Big Whiskey, Wyoming where the crime took place is the formidable obstacle standing in their way. He has already meted out his form of justice to the ranch hands and is not about to countenance someone else doing so. This is vividly and violently seen in a cameo by Richard Harris who is the first bounty hunter to arrive. Hackman's performance, combining his easy charm with a vicious ruthlessness is terrific. He deservedly won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The dialogue is simple and direct in the John Wayne tradition. However, Eastwood's Munny is no Hondo out to tame the wild west. He is a product of the dark side of his time and environment. The mood is dark (technically, sometimes the lighting is too dark). At his age Eastwood is the perfectly grizzled cowboy and has an unforgiving, cold-eyed meanness that slowly reemerges as the movie progresses. It fully emerges in a breathtakingly violent, unrelenting brutality in the final scene in the bar at Big Whiskey where the prostitutes reside and ply their trade.
Woolvetz and Freeman are excellent in their supporting roles. But this classic is dominated by the outsize personas of Eastwood and Hackman. If you like the old cowboy movies, where the emphasis is on old west mores and not computer-generated pyrotechnics, you will treasure this movie as we treasure the old western mythology.
"I've Killed Everything That Walked Or Crawled..." June 18, 2009
BIG SYKO
Hands-down the best modern day western ever made. Forget Appaloosa or 3:10 to Yuma, this is it! An all-star cast including Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, & Gene Hackman playing the ruthless sherrif bad guy. A must-have for Eastwood or Western collectors! Kick back & take a trip to Big Whiskey while enjoying it all on 1080 blu-ray.
Great movie May 29, 2009
Cindy Lyles
Bought this as a gift for my husband as this is his favorite Western. Love the bonus disc!
My Favorite Western May 20, 2009
Brad Alan Sommers (Sonoma, Californ--i-a)
I LOVE Westerns, and this is by far my all-time favorite. Here is America's greatest movie genre, the Western, writ large, with three (count 'em) three gunslingers who rise to mythic proportions: William Monie (Eastwood), Little Bill (Gene Hackman), and English Bob (Richard Harris). It's got it all: sex, violence, some tenderness and even plenty of humor. Great lines, and the best shoot-out at the end I've ever seen. I have to grab a bowl of popcorn and turn off all the lights for the last 15 minutes even though I've seen it dozens of times.
 A Very Good Western April 20, 2009
S. Peek (Rocky Mountains, USA)
Clint Eastwood directs and starts in 'Unforgiven' He does a great job with both roles.
Clint plays William Munny, a long retired gunfighter. Munny settled down years earlier with his wife and children. Times are rough. Now widowed, he is struggling to get by and raise his two kids. In the midst of this, the son of one of his old cohorts finds him and lets him know about a large reward for killing two thugs who disfigured a prostitute. The other women who she works with pooled their money to buy some justice since the sheriff, Little Bill (Gene Hackman) took virtually no action.
Munny wants to involve his old partner Ned (Morgan Freeman). Soon the three ride off toward Big Whiskey, Wyoming to track down the malefactors. A lot of action including a considerable amount of violence follows.
This is a very well done western that will likely be enjoyed by all fans of that genre.
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