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| View Larger Image | Hurricane | DVDStarring: Jason Robards, Mia Farrow, Max Von Sydow
Directed By: Jan Troell
Also With: Sven Nykvist (Cinematographer), Nino Rota (Composer), Sam O'Steen (Editor)
| List Price: | $14.95 | | Price: | $13.49 | | You Save: | $1.46 (10%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 120 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen | | Studio: | Legend Films | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.78:1 | | Release Date: | July 01, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 51,048st |
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FEATURES | - Dino De Laurentiis' epic adventure story features an all-star cast and impressive special effects. Filmed entirely on location on the remote South Seas island of Bora Bora, this is a touching story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief (Dayton Ka'ne) and a beautiful American painter (Mia Farrow), against the will of her father (Jason Robards), the powerful governor of t
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Dino De Laurentiis' epic adventure story features an all-star cast and impressive special effects. Filmed entirely on location on the remote South Seas island of Bora Bora, this is a touching story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief (Dayton Ka'ne) and a beautiful American painter (Mia Farrow), against the will of her father (Jason Robards), the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled. Sven Nykvist's brilliant cinematography showcases both the beautiful island splendor and the catastrophic destruction of Hurricane. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 17 reviews)
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Love among the Ruins by blondeguy10 (South Africa)  3 Stars
November 06, 2009
A remake of 30's classic - this was panned on release and was considered a flop on release in 1979, but it arrived when the genre was already in the death throes with big flops like Beyond The Poseidon Adventure and Meteor.
As a reminder of those big 70's disaster movies this is a standout...with unbelievable special effects for the time.
However the first half of the film concerns itself with the romance between Mia Farrow and handsome island boy Dayton Ka'ne...which is beautifully photographed and believable some of the criticism at the time was that it was just too long and dull before the real special effects start. However in the tradition of any great romance there is the angry father, the tribal dances, a trial a scorned navy captain etc etc.
A must have for fans of the 'disaster genre' like me with wonderful special effects and one of the most beautiful movie scores I have ever heard.
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One of Mia Farrows best films!!Now on DVD!!! by yeye (california)  5 Stars
June 29, 2009
I was so happy when i saw this movie on DVD and just had to get it.
I never thought Mia could play such a seductive role of a woman in love.
A must see for those who love watching great love stories!
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Hurricane by M. Sinibaldi (Texas) 5 Stars
February 16, 2009
An interracial love story of 2 young people from 2 different worlds who's relationship is interrupted by family and nature. This story has beautiful scenery and peeks into to difficulty of overcoming racial discrimination.
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"You see one palm tree, you've seen `em all." by Trevor Willsmer (London, England)  2 Stars
January 22, 2009
"You've been playing the fool, Matangi, making cow eyes with the governor's daughter. But don't despair, there's hope for you. If foolishness was a mortal sin, Hell would have been full up years ago from overcrowding."
A one-time Roman Polanski project until his, er, legal problems intervened, 1979's Hurricane may boast some arthouse talents on the credits but it's got a Harlequin Romance mentality. A big budget reworking of John Ford's classic but rarely revived 30s forbidden love story cum disaster movie, it's the kind of film where the budget rarely seems to translate on screen, with $22m buying a rather second rate star cast - Mia Farrow, Jason Robards, Max Von Sydow, Timothy Bottoms and Trevor Howard, still playing the priest from Ryan's Daughter in all but name - and one of the least exciting natural disasters ever filmed. This time round rather than Jon Hall's unjustly imprisoned native sailor fighting the elements to return to wife Dorothy Lamour, it's Mia Farrow, daughter of Jason Robard's stern governor, failing to take Von Sydow's advice "In the tropics, take passion lightly and always with a grain of salt" and defying convention to fall for local chief Dayton Ka'ne. At times it's hard to tell whether Robards objects because he rather fancies his daughter himself or because their love scenes are so corny ("Marry me at once or leave my island!" "Do you hear that, gods? The high chief has spoken!"), but pretty soon he and racist Marine James Keach are sending him to certain death in prison and nature, clearly abhorring the vacuum the film exists in, gets bored and throws in a hurricane in the last half hour to try to liven things up. Nature loses.
Jan Troell's unenthusiastic direction takes a tortoise and the hare approach to storytelling and a clinical, almost ant farm approach to the love story. You can almost imagine a scientist with a clipboard making notes. So disastrously short of passion it's like watching two tortoises mate, his detached style is almost heroically at odds with Lorenzo Semple's often inane, wilfully tongue-in-cheek direlogue like "It's astounding that I would ever accept love as an excuse for criminal conduct!" or "You see one palm tree, you've seen `em all." Amazingly, even a scene where a ship crashes into a church doesn't kick much life in to the picture.
It's easy to see what might have appealed to Polanski - a defloration ceremony that goes violently wrong ("Don't go there, Charlotte, you wouldn't like it") and a scene where Farrow hints to her father that she'll sleep with him if he frees her lover - but the result is the kind of movie where a TV network could cut 29 minutes and nobody would complain. There are a few unintentional laughs and it's fun to catch composer Nino Rota taking his revenge on producer Dino De Laurentiis for costing him his Godfather Oscar by creeping its theme into his Hawaiian theme bar score from time to time, but it's all too easy to see why this massive money loser was so quickly forgotten - it's just dull. Even Paramount wanted nothing to do with the DVD release, sublicensing it to Legend Films, who offer a reasonable 2.35:1 transfer with only the original trailer as an extra. It's all too revealing about the film that even that can't summon up much enthusiasm until it stops showing scenes from the film and resorts to a montage of still photos to up the tempo!
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Typical Soap Opera followed by Disaster by R. Gawlitta (Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA) 3 Stars
December 21, 2008
With such high production values, it's too bad that this film is so relentlessly boring, followed by a mind-blowing spectacle at the end. WAY too long. Nino Rota's score was reminiscent of "The Godfather", which was not exactly appropriate. The photography by the brilliant Sven Nykvist couldn't be better; but the direction by the gifted Jan Troell kept the pace at a terminally slow level. The acting is generally wooden, especially by Ms. Farrow. As in all disaster movies, the soap opera is prevalent, which sometime can add to the proceedings (The Towering Inferno) or simply bring it down to the dud level (Krakatoa, East of Java). This definitely falls into the latter category. Start the movie half way through, and you may enjoy some fine special effects.
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