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When four friends decide to go on a canoeing trip down the Cahulawassee River before it becomes one giant lake, they run into problems when two members find themselves at odds with two mountain men who sexually assault and threaten to kill them.

Despite an air of foreboding around the whole idea of what they're doing, the men begin heading down the river, but during a respite on the journey, an encounter with a couple of demented mountain men changes the course of the trip and the lives of these four men forever, in ways they never could ha...

All about four city men who travel to a Georgia river that is soon to be dammed and turned into a lake, according to the leader of the group, Lewis (Burt Reynolds).

It appears as if Deliverance is the dream project of director John Boorman, for Boorman has not only made an exceptional film, but his style defines Deliverance from beginning to end, turning the movie into a chaotic mess that works perfectly within the situation the four protagonists find themselve...

Most people don't look at this film as one of revolutionary impact, but 60s displayed men of the macho-istic type as the heroes, but never has a mainstream film transformed these same individuals (Burt Reynold's character in your typical embodiment of a man's man as is Ned Beatty's, who's more so co...

John Boorman's 1972 film about four friends - Ed, Lewis, Bobby, Drew - who go on a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a huge lake has become something of a cult seventies classic.

I also felt that they should have had more trials and tribulations actually caused by the wilderness to show the point, so that it was a man v nature battle as opposed to man v man in nature.