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The Bounty 1984 3 stars

    PG, 130 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Philip Davis, Liam Neeson, Wi Kuki Kaa, Tevaite Vernette, Philip Martin Brown, Simon Chandler, Malcolm Terris, Simon Adams, John Sessions

  In this remake of the Clark Gable classic "Mutiny on the Bounty," Mel Gibson portrays seaman Fletcher Christian with Anthony Hopkins as a strict, but this time more humane, Captain Bligh. Bligh's cruelty, which includes flogging, results in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian as they sail around Cape Horn. After the mutiny, they seek refuge on Tahiti where even more problems lie ahead.

UTU 1983 3 stars

    R, 104 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Geoff Murphy
Cast: Anzac Wallace, Tim Elliott, Wi Kuki Kaa, Bruno Lawrence, Kelly Johnson, Ilona Rodgers, Geoff Murphy, Ian Watkin

  From New Zealand comes this very good adventure film about Maori tribesmen bent on "Utu" (revenge) against the white men's senseless brutalities.

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