Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300270541 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6300270548 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: December 04, 1992 Running Time: 142 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 02, 1984 Sales Rank: 5651
Amazon.com: This harrowing but rewarding 1984 drama concerns the real-life relationship between New York Times reporter Sidney Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor), the latter left at the mercy of the Khmer Rouge after Schanberg--who chose to stay after American evacuation but was booted out--failed to get him safe passage. Filmmaker Roland Joffé, previously a documentarist, made his feature debut with this account of Dith's rocky survival in the ensuing madness of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal campaign. The script spends some time with Schanberg's feelings of guilt after the fact, but most of the movie is a shattering re-creation of hell on Earth. The late Haing S. Ngor--a real-life doctor who had never acted before and who lived through the events depicted by Joffé--is outstanding, and he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Oscars also went to cinematographer Chris Menges and editor Jim Clark. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - 3.5 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:
An intelligent look at the atrocities that occurred in Cambodia and their effects, The Killing Fields is consistently interesting for 140+ minutes (no small feat), features ... Read More
Rating: - Excellence!!!
theres no shadow of doubt that this is a classic that presents the khmer rouge issue in cambodia and an extraordinary history that everyone got to see.
Rating: - Imagining the Unimaginable
The Killing Fields
As everyone knows by now, The Killing Fields is the story of New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg's search for his Cambodian companion
Dith Pran, who disappeared during ... Read More
Rating: - The hardest movie for me to watch
I first watched this movie when it came out in 1984, the second half of the movie was so emotionally charged for me that it was more than ten years before I could watch it again. To watch graphic depictions ... Read More
Rating: - Chilling
At the time of release this was a shocker. Not many realised what genocide was. How this could go on without intervention by the wider world was disturbing. With the passage of time, and similar atrocities almost ... Read More
- 3.5 stars out of 4
- Imagining the Unimaginable