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Out of Africa (1985)
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Overview
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Release Date:
18 December 1985 (USA)
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Tagline:
Based on a true story.
Plot:
In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won 7 Oscars.
Another 22 wins
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17 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(19 articles)
Their Best Role: Meryl Streep
(From Cinematical. 18 November 2009, 9:02 AM, PST)
An Evening with ‘Pinewood Legends’ at Pinewood Studios
(From HeyUGuys. 13 November 2009, 6:53 AM, PST)
(From Cinematical. 18 November 2009, 9:02 AM, PST)
An Evening with ‘Pinewood Legends’ at Pinewood Studios
(From HeyUGuys. 13 November 2009, 6:53 AM, PST)
User Comments:
One of the Best Movies I have ever seen
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Meryl Streep | ... | Karen Blixen |
 | Robert Redford | ... | Denys Finch Hatton |
 | Klaus Maria Brandauer | ... | Bror Blixen / Hans Blixen |
 | Michael Kitchen | ... | Berkeley Cole |
 | Malick Bowens | ... | Farah |
| Joseph Thiaka | ... | Kamante |
| Stephen Kinyanjui | ... | Kinanjui |
| Michael Gough | ... | Lord Delamere |
| Suzanna Hamilton | ... | Felicity |
| Rachel Kempson | ... | Lady Belfield |
| Graham Crowden | ... | Lord Belfield |
| Leslie Phillips | ... | Sir Joseph |
| Shane Rimmer | ... | Belknap |
| Mike Bugara | ... | Juma |
| Job Seda | ... | Kanuthia |
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Runtime:
160 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) |
Dolby (35 mm prints)
Certification:
Iceland:L |
Portugal:M/12 |
South Korea:12 |
Brazil:16 |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:PG |
Chile:TE |
Finland:K-12 |
France:U |
Norway:11 |
Spain:T |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:PG |
USA:PG |
West Germany:12 |
Singapore:PG
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Meryl Streep developed her accent by listening to actual recordings of Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) reading her works.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Karen is about to shoot the lion, she has blood on the right side of her mouth from biting her lip. Afterwards, when Denys wipes her mouth, the blood is on the left side.
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Quotes:
Karen Blixen:
[Voiceover] I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the north, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up; near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Damaged (#4.11)" (2003)
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Soundtrack:
God Save the King
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| Denys Vs Farah | I-had-a-farm-in-africa |
| 'Don't move' | gleghorn |
| Berkeley Cole question | CrazyMaryT |
| Question | emily_the_strange1 |
| Pregnant? | StreeplyFantastic93 |
| Best Soundtrack Ever? | Jazztiger |
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OUT OF AFRICA is based on the memoirs of Danish writer Karen Blixen (pen name, Isak Dinesen) in a coffee plantation in present day Kenya. It explains how this brave woman overcomes the stereotype of a dainty, colonial British lady by running the coffee farm while her husband Bror Blixen (Brandauer) led a life of hunting and infidelities. Meryl Streep is great as Karen Blixen. She manages to maintain the realistic Danish accent through the whole film. Redford is great as Denys Finch-Hatton, the Etonian hunter who keeps companion in her loneliest and hardest. But the real attraction of the film is he outstanding photography of the African landscape together with the sweeping John Barry soundtrack that is probably the most beautiful movie soundtrack of the 1980s. OUT OF AFRICA will be regarded as Sydney Pollack's asterpiece and a Classic of our times.