The Year of Living Dangerously

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2005 Filmcritic.com

Five bucks if you can remember where and when the heralded Year of Living Dangerously is set. No, not Vietnam or Cambodia. It's actually 1965 Indonesia, when a boring assignment turns "dangerous" for Aussie journalist Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson) when the country's revolution unexpectedly begins. Soon he's involved with a diplomat (Sigourney Weaver) when not running amok with photographer pal Billy Kwan, a half-Chinese dwarf man -- memorably played by non-Chinese, non-dwarf, non-male Linda Hunt, who deservedly won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. The rest of the film hasn't aged nearly as well as Hunt's fun performance, though.

Rating

3.5 out of 5 Stars

  • Director: Peter Weir
  • Producer: Jim McElroy
  • Screenwriter: Peter Weir, David Williamson
  • Stars: Linda Hunt, Mel Gibson, Bembol Roco, Domingo Landicho, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Murphy
  • MPAA Rating: PG

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