The finest hour of one-shot-wonder Michael Cimino, who also won an Oscar for best direction, the story starts among the Polish-American community in a small Pennsylvania mining town the plotline focuses on three lifelong friends, played by Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage. Unlike the broad strokes of Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, the 1979 best-picture Oscar-winner provides a more personal take on the human casualties of the Vietnam War. Stark and haunting, and still unbearable to watch at times, The Deer Hunter remains a powerful movie experience.
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