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    Year of Living Dangerously, The (1982)

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    This thriller/romance is set in Indonesia (though filmed in the Philippines) in 1965, just before the fall of the Sukarno regime.

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    Civil war is breaking out everywhere, and there is endless talk about Communist guerrillas, military coups, and the death of colonialism.

    Mel Gibson is Guy Hamilton, an ambitious but naive Australian radio correspondent who has an affair with beautiful British attaché Jill Bryant, played by Sigourney Weaver.

    But the film is stolen by diminutive Linda Hunt who plays Billy Kwan, a half oriental/half Australian (male) dwarf photographer. Hunt won an Oscar for this, her first film appearance.

    There’s plenty of humidity and plenty of atmosphere but ultimately none of it adds up to anything substantial, and the film drags along aimlessly.

    yearoflivingdangerously

    Guy Hamilton
    Mel Gibson
    Jill Bryant
    Sigourney Weaver
    Billy Kwan
    Linda Hunt
    Kumar
    Bembol Roco
    Hortono
    Domingo Landicho
    Pete Curtis
    Michael Murphy
    Wally O’Sullivan
    Noel Ferrier
    Kevin Condon
    Paul Sonkkila
    Colonel Henderson
    Bill Kerr
    Tiger Lily
    Kuh Ledesma

    Director
    Peter Weir

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