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Deterrence (1998)

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Reviews Counted: 38 Fresh: 17  Rotten:21 Average Rating: 5.3/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins

Synopsis: The year is 2008 and President Walter Emerson (Kevin Pollak) is stranded in a Colorado diner in the middle of a blizzard. Suddenly, news arrives that Iraq has invaded Kuwait, and threatens the rest of the Middle East with chemical and biological weapons. With most of the U.S. armed forces stuck... The year is 2008 and President Walter Emerson (Kevin Pollak) is stranded in a Colorado diner in the middle of a blizzard. Suddenly, news arrives that Iraq has invaded Kuwait, and threatens the rest of the Middle East with chemical and biological weapons. With most of the U.S. armed forces stuck in a tense military stand-off in Korea, the President decides he has only one option: he announces on television that he will launch a nuclear attack on Baghdad unless Iraq backs down. While the President's advisors try to figure out a diplomatic solution, the situation in the diner gets increasingly tense, and the global crisis escalates until global nuclear war is threatened. DETERRENCE is a tense military thriller with several unique twists and turns and an intelligent plot guaranteed to provoke debate. Director and former film critic Rod Lurie makes good use of a low budget thanks to imaginative direction and strong performances from the cast, including Timothy Hutton and Sheryl Lee Ralph as the President's advisors. While most thrillers are content to provide excitement, DETERRENCE combines tense political thrills with a subtle but strong position on global nuclear weapons. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Kevin Pollak, Timothy Hutton, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Sean Astin, Clotilde Courau

Director: Rod Lurie
Screenwriter: Rod Lurie
Producer: Mark Frydman, James Spies
Composer: Larry Groupe

DVD Info

Release:

Aug 29, 2000

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Single Side/Single Layer
  • Letterboxed - Anamorphic - 1.85:1

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Surround - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - Rod Lurie - Director
  • Original Theatrical Trailer

Interactive Features:

  • Scene Access
  • Interactive Menus

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2.5/4

Lurie quickly glazes over one important bit of backstory in the early going, a point that is crucial to understand some motivation.

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07/16/05
Michael Dequina
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06/30/05
Emanuel Levy
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4/5

Taut and intense. Pollak is outstanding.

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03/20/03
Jeffrey Westhoff
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4/5

To it's credit, the film doesn't pull many punches . . .It really gets the message across that when you threaten someone with nukes, you'd better be ready to pull the trigger.

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03/20/03
Brian Mckay
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Jeff Strickler
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Margaret A. McGurk
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08/17/02
Urban Cinefile Critics
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With a strong cast and smart script, Lurie conjures up an engaging scenario with little more than chicken wire and string.

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10/24/01
Rob Vaux
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06/19/01
Christopher Null
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he exciting thing about Deterrence is that *we* are the big scary bad guy who is acting irrationally - and yet the conclusion explains everything.

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06/15/01
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02/22/01
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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3/10

Only in Hollywood is ineptitude and crassness rewarded so richly.

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02/14/01
Tom Block
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You'll wish this clunker was at ground zero.

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01/01/00
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3/4

In order to get into this film, one must suspend a truckload of disbelief.

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01/01/00
Cornell & Petricelli
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01/01/00
D.K. Holm
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Weighed down by an earnest but dated liberalism that makes Deterrence come across like a TV movie-of-the-week.

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01/01/00
Daniel Eagan
Film Journal International
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As a former film critic, Lurie presumably knows how to communicate ideas, but there's an unbridgeable gap between the movie he thinks he's made and the movie he's actually made.

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01/01/00
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
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