The Hunted

Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones Director: William Friedkin Original UK Premiere: 2003 Dvd Release: 6th October, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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The Hunted is a 2003 movie directed by William Friedkin & starring Tommy Lee Jones & Benicio del Toro. Jones plays a special operations instructor who is asked to track down one of his former students, played by Del Toro, who has gone renegade & killed forest rangers & hunters in the Pacific Northwest. Although the FBI is brought in, led by an agent-in-charge played by Connie Nielsen, the search begins & ends as a personal battle between the two main characters, in the forests & rivers of Oregon & on & under the streets of Portland. The technical advisor for the film was Tom Brown, Jr. Americas number one outdoorsman & wilderness survival expert. The Hunted   at the Internet Movie Database.

William Friedkins taut direction highlights The Hunted, a bloodsport thriller that works best without dialogue. Its a prime vehicle for co-stars Tommy Lee Jones & Benicio Del Toro, whose rugged screen personas are perfectly matched in a manhunt between a military assassin & the man who trained him to kill. Traumatised by atrocities in Kosovo four years earlier , Hallam is seemingly psychotic & now killing in the forests of Oregon; Bonham is lured out of retirement by a tenacious FBI agent to end Hallams murder spree. The hackneyed plot is derivative to a fault , & the whole movies a foregone conclusion, but Friedkin inspires fine work from his well-trained stars while exploring the ambiguity of Hallams character. Lushly photographed by Caleb Deschanel, The Hunted is a survivalists dream, militarily authentic & most effective when its primal instincts are cinematically expressed.

Benicio Del Toro is an actor. He was born in San German, Puerto Rico & grew up in Santurce, a district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. His parents, Gustavo Del Toro & Fausta Sanchez-Del Toro, were both lawyers. Benicios mother died of hepatitis when he was nine years old. Benicio attended Academia del Perpetuo Socorro, a Catholic school in Miramar, Puerto Rico. At age 13, he moved to Mercersburg, Pennsylvania & attended Mercersburg Academy, a boarding school. He received a best supporting actor Oscar for his role in Traffic. Posters Of Benicio Del Toro

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Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor & director from San Saba, Texas. A graduate of the St. Marks School of Texas, he attended Harvard on a scholarship, where he was a roommate of the future Vice President Al Gore at Dunster House & there he received a B,A. in English literature & graduated cum laude in 1969. He then moved to New York City to become an actor. He started acting on Broadway & he made his debut in Love Story. Between 1971 & 1975, he portrayed Dr Mark Toland on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, then he played the role of an escaped convict that was hunted down by the police in Jackson County Jail. In 1983 he received an Emmy for Best Actor for his performance as Gary Gilmore in The Executioners Song. In the 1990s, movies such as The Fugitive costarring Harrison Ford & Men in Black with Will Smith brought him tens of millions of dollars & made him one of the top actors of Hollywood. His role in The Fugitive won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Posters Of Tommy Lee Jones

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William Friedkin is a movie & television director, producer & writer best known for directing The Exorcist & The French Connection in the early 1970 ’s. After seeing the movie Citizen Kane as a boy, he became fascinated with movies & immediately began working for WGN TV after high school. He eventually began directing live television shows & documentaries including The People vs. Paul Crump which won several awards & helped to commute the death sentence of the film’s subject. In 1965, Friedkin moved to Hollywood & by 1967 saw the release of his first feature film Good Times which starred Sonny & Cher. Several other films followed until 1971 when The French Connection was released to wide critical acclaim. It won 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture & Best Director. Friedkin followed with 1973 ’s The Exorcist which revolutionized the horror genre & is considered one of the greatest horror movies of all time. The Exorcist was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including nominations for Best Picture & Best Director. Posters Of The Exorcist

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