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Out of Africa

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Out of Africa

1985

Sydney Pollack

Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen ...

7.4

64,372

Romance. Adventure. Drama Based on the book "Out of Africa" by Danish writer Isak Dinesen (her real name was Karen Blixen). Karen Blixen, a Danish woman, marries a friend for the title of Baroness and they move to Africa and start a coffee plantation. Things unfold when her husband begins cheating on her and is away on business often, so she's at home alone, working on the farm and bonding with two men she met in her first day in Africa. She eventually falls in ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"A big, physically elaborate but wispy movie (...) With the exception of Miss Streep's performance, the pleasures of Out of Africa are all peripheral"
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A movie with the courage to be about complex, sweeping emotions, and to use the star power of its actors without apology (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"'Out of Africa' is still an absolute knockout (...) The production itself is so exquisitely served that you can’t help but be grateful for this extraordinary visual treat."
		Alex von Tunzelmann The Guardian	"A beautifully made film, but this version of Karen Blixen's life is thickly coated with sugar."
		Ian Nathan Empire	"This film feels like one of the last of its kind (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Pollack may be the only remaining American filmmaker who knows how to get his money's worth out of movie stars (...) This is a film of rare and pleasing smoothness"
		James Harwood Variety	"A sensitive, enveloping romantic tragedy (...) The film rarely really comes to life except when Redford is around"
		Sue Heal Radio Times	"This is a beautifully filmed movie (...) [It is] eminently watchable stuff (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"Streep can pretty nearly do anything (...) but she cannot provide all the heat in a love affair and, regrettably, that's what she is left to do."
		Chris Peachment Time Out	"The film's final destination is not many miles from Disneyland"

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