Unforgiven

Theatrical Release Date: 1992 08 07 (USA)

UPC: 883929126170

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Adult Situations, Not For Children, Western Violence]

Summary: Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face, Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by fierce Strawberry Alice (Frances Fisher), take justice into their own hands and put a $1000 bounty on the lives of the perpetrators. Notorious outlaw-turned-hog farmer William Munny (Eastwood) is sought out by neophyte gunslinger the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) to go with him to Big Whiskey and collect the bounty. While Munny insists, "I ain't like that no more," he needs the bounty money for his children, and the two men convince Munny's clean-living comrade Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) to join them in righting a wrong done to a woman. Little Bill (Oscar-winner Gene Hackman), however, has no intention of letting any bounty hunters impinge on his iron-clad authority. When pompous gunman English Bob (Richard Harris) arrives in Big Whiskey with pulp biographer W.W. Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek) in tow, Little Bill beats Bob senseless and promises to tell Beauchamp the real story about violent frontier life and justice. But when Munny, the true unwritten legend, comes to town, everyone soon learns a harsh lesson about the price of vindictive bloodshed and the malleability of ideas like "justice." "I don't deserve this," pleads Little Bill. "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it," growls Munny, simultaneously summing up the insanity of western violence and the legacy of Eastwood's Man With No Name. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Category: Western

Awards: Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts David Lean Award – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Original Screenplay – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Cinematography – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – null Best Director – null Best Screenplay – null 100 Greatest American Movies – American Film Institute Best Picture – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Actor – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Director – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Cinematography – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Picture – National Society of Film Critics Best Director – National Society of Film Critics Best Actor - Runner-up – National Society of Film Critics Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – National Society of Film Critics Best Screenplay – National Society of Film Critics Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor – National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actor – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Supporting Actor – New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Picture – National Society of Film Critics Best Director – National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actor – National Society of Film Critics

Features: cc
Commentary by historian/Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel
Theatrical trailer

Unforgiven

Format: DVD

Release Date: 06/01/2010

Audio: DS Dolby Surround (4.0), DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 131 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Unforgiven
1. Foreword [1:11]
2. Big Whiskey Disturbance [2:42]
3. "No Fuss" Fine [3:06]
4. "We Ain't Horses" [1:16]
5. Schofield Kid [5:52]
6. Payment Day [2:43]
7. Out of Practice [7:23]
8. Done Stuff for Money [4:33]
9. Just a Fella Now [2:49]
10. Majesty of Royalty [2:52]
11. No Firearms Allowed [4:18]
12. Welcoming English Bob [7:30]
13. Not-so-Straight Shooter [7:19]
14. Duke of Death [4:20]
15. Killers' Campfire [2:19]
16. Object Lesson [6:23]
17. Farewell to Savages [2:47]
18. Vision of the Dead [4:12]
19. Big Whiskey Hospitality [7:10]
20. Angel of Death [3:46]
21. "We Both Got Scars" [4:51]
22. Water for a Dying Man [4:48]
23. Ned's Decision [1:43]
24. "He Had It Coming" [4:59]
25. Interrogating Ned [2:02]
26. Assassins Strike [2:36]
27. A Hel of a Thing [3:28]
28. Will's Only Friend [3:55]
29. On Display [1:19]
30. Here to Kill You [3:47]
31. "Deserves Got Nothin' to Do With It" [3:51]
32. Killer's Threat [2:19]
33. Epilogue and End Credits [6:09]

Lucia Bozzola

Appearing two years after Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning megahit Dances With Wolves, Unforgiven helped spur a mini-revival of the moribund genre in the 1990s that included Posse (1993), Tombstone (1993), and Sharon Stone's "Man With No Name" turn in The Quick and the Dead (1995). Written by David Webb Peoples in 1976, the script was bought by Clint Eastwood in the early '80s, though he waited until he was old enough to play psychotic antihero William Munny as a grizzled veteran of a bloody past, rather than someone closer to the younger Eastwood of Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy and Don Siegel's Dirty Harry (1971). Upon its release in August 1992, seven years after Eastwood's previous western Pale Rider, Unforgiven was praised as an uncompromising revisionist masterpiece, showcasing Eastwood's visual command of western landscapes and locations and his perceptive yet critical view of the genre's mythology and his own place in its "machinery of violence." After deliberately pacing the reemergence of Munny's pathology, Eastwood shrouds the climactic shoot-out in cinematographer Jack N. Green's dark shadows and heavy rainfall reminiscent of film noir, rendering Munny's return to Eastwood's lethal star form unsettling in its victory. Unforgiven became an unexpected serious hit in a season of popcorn movies, eventually grossing over $100 million and reviving Eastwood's star standing after a series of late '80s flops. After winning several critics' prizes, it became one of only a handful of westerns to win the Best Picture Oscar; Eastwood's status behind the camera was finally acknowledged with a Best Director statuette. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Clint Eastwood  Director 
Clint Eastwood  Producer 
Lennie Niehaus  Composer (Music Score) 
David Peoples  Executive Producer 
David Peoples  Screenwriter 
David Valdes  Executive Producer 
Clint Eastwood  Actor 
Gene Hackman  Actor 
Morgan Freeman  Actor 
Richard Harris  Actor 
Jaimz Woolvett  Actor 
Saul Rubinek  Actor 
Frances Fisher  Actor 
David Mucci  Actor 
Rob Campbell  Actor 
Anthony James  Actor 
Stuart Aikins  Actor 
Phyllis Huffman  Actor 
Liisa Repo-Martell  Actor 
Anna Levine  Actor 
Tara Dawn Frederick  Actor 
Beverley Elliott  Actor 
Josie Smith  Actor 
Shane Meier  Actor 
Aline Levasseur  Actor 
Robert Koons  Actor 
Ron White  Actor 
Henry Kope  Actor 
Jeremy Ratchford  Actor 
John Pyper-Ferguson  Actor 
Jefferson Mappin  Actor 
Walter Marsh  Actor 
Frank C. Turner  Actor 
Lochlyn Munro  Actor 
Ben Cardinal  Actor 
Michael Maurer  Actor 
Larry Joshua  Actor 
George Orrison  Actor 
Mina E. Mina  Actor 
Philip Hayes  Actor 
Greg Goossen  Actor 
Chad Dowdell  Actor 

Country: USA