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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:41
Rotten:4
Average Rating:8.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Based on the true-life exploits of notorious Depression-era bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, BONNIE AND CLYDE is recognized as one of the most violent films to come out of mainstream... Based on the true-life exploits of notorious Depression-era bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, BONNIE AND CLYDE is recognized as one of the most violent films to come out of mainstream Hollywood. Bonnie (Faye Dunaway) is bored with life and wants a change. She gets her chance when she meets a charming young drifter by the name of Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty). Clyde has dreams of a life of crime that will free him from the hardships of the Depression. The two fall in love and begin a crime spree that extends from Oklahoma to Texas. They rob small banks with skill and panache, soon becoming minor celebrities known across the country. People are proud to have been held up by Bonnie and Clyde; to their victims, the duo is doing what nobody else has the guts to do. To the law, the two are evil bank robbers who deserve to be gunned down where they stand. Beatty and Dunaway are marvelous as the young criminal lovers, delivering subtle and complete performances. Also excellent are Gene Hackman as Clyde's brother, Buck; Estelle Parsons as Buck's wife, Blanche; and the always enjoyable Michael J. Pollard as C.W. Moss. The film has made a large impact on American culture, expressing the mood of rebellion rampant in the late 1960s and beyond. [More]
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Estelle Parsons, Gene Hackman
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Estelle Parsons, Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Wilder, Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Evan Evans, James Stiver, Clyde Howdy, Garry Goodgion, Ken Mayer
Director: Arthur Penn
Director: Arthur Penn
Screenwriter: Robert Benton, David Newman
Producer: Warren Beatty
Composer: Charles Strouse
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Reviews for Bonnie and Clyde
Beatty's slo-mo rolling across the gravel, a muzzle flashing in his hand, is more real to us than Clyde slumped behind the wheel, dead before he realized he was ambushed
So definitive in so many ways, Bonnie and Clyde has become a 20th-century touchstone.
Warren Beatty hardly seems the desperado type, but Faye Dunaway is convincing in her role as his companion in robbery and murder.
Proof that the 1960s ended with a bang. For many, the film of the decade.
It's by far the least controlled of Penn's films... but the pieces work wonderfully well, propelled by what was then a very original acting style.
When I saw it, I had been a film critic for less than six months, and it was the first masterpiece I had seen on the job. I felt an exhilaration beyond describing.
In spite of the technological advances of film in the modern age, the blood soaked finale remains one of the most extraordinarily shot closers ever filmed...
Freed from the production code that drove most of the old Warner Brothers gangster films of the 1930s and 40s, Arthur Penn gave Bonnie and Clyde a new kind of thrilling glee.
It is...the beauty of the screen images against the ugliness of the events that gives the film a constant and poignant sense of irony.
...whizzes by in a compact 111 minutes, while carrying an image of people and places that is hard to forget.
Arguably the most influential film of the late 60s, Arthur Penn's innovative crime saga forever changed the course of American cinema, particularly in the controversial areas of sex and violence and the link between them.
Funny and violent, knowing and chilling, this is the template that no lovers-on-the-lam movies has ever bettered.
A film of enormous aesthetic and historical importance. American filmmaking turned a corner with its release, and it can never now turn back.
Some scenes are violent even by today's standards. Robbing during the depression is highly glamourized, especially with the youthful good looks of Beatty and Dunaway.
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