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The film covers the life of the friends in Western Pennsylvania -- at work, at
home, at a bar, and at the Russian Orthodox Church. Its apogee is the celebration
of the shotgun wedding of Steven and Angela, who is pregnant with what is implied
to be Nick's child. The wedding itself is extensively portrayed and fleshed out,
complete with various wedding traditions highlighted by the Orthodox Wedding ceremony
of crowning. Later on a hunting trip, Mike, who is known for killing the best deer
every year, is quite harsh with Stanley for joining them unprepared. During the
actual hunting scenes, Orthodox liturgical music is heard. The hunt is successful
for Mike, and a deer is brought home on the hood of Mike's Cadillac. The film then cuts
directly to an ongoing war scene in Vietnam where Mike, a member of a special forces unit,
is reunited with Steven and Nick as he is in the act of killing. The scene cuts to a river
pontoon-prison, where the three friends are captives of the Viet Cong. They are forced to play
Russian roulette against each other for the gambling amusement of their Vietnamese captors.
Mike first considers abandoning Steven (whom he believes has been broken mentally and cannot
survive), but eventually engineers an escape for all three men by killing their captors during
the game. Soon after an American patrol helicopter appears but is only able to rescue Nick.
Steven falls back into the river and Mike jumps from the helicopter after him. Eventually, the
two swim ashore with Mike saving Steven's life. Steven's legs are broken by the fall; Mike
carries him until they reach a South Vietnamese convoy, with whom he then leaves Steven. Mike
then continues his tour of duty and returns home alone.
Meanwhile Nick is recuperating in a hospital
in South Vietnam, and goes AWOL when he takes up with a rogue Frenchman in the city of Saigon who
promises him riches if he participates in Russian roulette competitions. Back in the US, Mike becomes
romantically involved with Nick's girlfriend, Linda. The friends go on a hunting trip again, although
Nick and Steven are still missing. Mike gets the opportunity to kill a beautiful buck, but pulls the
gun away at the last second; the fun in taking a life gone from his time in the war. While hunting,
Stan pulls out his revolver, to which Axel questions Stan if he brought the revolver in case he comes
across his girlfriend "sucking on a park ranger's cock?" Stan becomes angry with the accusation and
points the gun at Axel while Axel laughs at him. Stan threatens Axel to say that again, to which Mike,
who had just come into the room, runs over and takes the gun from Stan. Stan insists the gun is empty,
but Mike discovers it was fully loaded. Mike empties all the rounds out of the gun except one and spins
the chamber, places the gun against Stan's head and pulls the trigger. The gun doesn't go off, and Mike
leaves the cabin to throw the gun into the mountains.
Mike later reunites with Stevie, who has had both his legs amputated and his left arm paralyzed, and
recovering in a Veterans' Administration hospital. Stevie shows Mike the large amounts of cash he has
been receiving by mail, which suggests that Nick is alive and still in Vietnam. Mike then travels to
Saigon just before its fall in 1975, where with the help of the Frenchman he finds Nick and learns that
his best friend is still involved in the underground Russian roulette circuit. Nick appears at first to
have no recollection of his friend or their lives in Pennsylvania. He is under the influence of heroin,
as is indicated by track marks on his forearm. They then face each other in the game surrounded by
screaming gamblers. During the final match, Mike "buys" Nick and tries to persuade him to come home.
Nick finally acknowledges that he does remember Mike, by repeating a line the two used together while
deer hunting ("one shot"). With that, Nick pulls the gun away from Mike, shooting himself right in front
of Mike. Mike brings Nick's body back to America, sadly fulfilling his promise from the night of the wedding.
The film ends on the morning of Nick's funeral at his Russian Orthodox parish. We see everyone leave the
church after the wedding with the singing of the joyous "Mnogaja ljeta" but for the funeral they leave
the church with the sombre singing of "Vechnaya Pamyat" or "Memory Eternal". The film ends with the
surviving friends having a private breakfast together while quietly singing God Bless America.
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Starring ... |
Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, Meryl Streep, John Savage,
George Dzundza, Chuck Aspergren
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Director: Michael Cimino
Producers:
Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall
Released - February 23, 1979
Length - 182 minutes
Music Composer: Stanley Myers
Movie Distributed by Universal Studios
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