End of the Road 2012 DVD Release Date
- Actors: James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach
- Format: Color, NTSC
- Language: English
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Rated: Unrated
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- DVD Release Date: September 18, 2012
- Run Time: 110 minutes
Customer Reviews
After working on Easy Rider, Terry Southern began collaborating with Aram Avakian on an intense adaptation of John Barth's debut novel. Shot in the summer and fall of 1968, when America was reeling from assasinations, the quagmire of Vietnam, rioting and ideological meltdown, the resulting film transforms Barth's existential character study into a chilling, visually stunning critique of political, sexual and cultural dysfunction. If the film's reach sometimes exceeds its grasp, there is still much that astonishes in this rarely screened film: the superb acting by Stacy Keach, James Earl Jones, Dorothy Tristan and Harris Yulin; the feature film debut of legendary cinematographer Gordon Willis; the haunting opening montage that relate's the lead's typical boomer upbringing against the horrorshow of post-WWII history; the music supervised by jazz producer George Avakian; and last, but not least, the uncompromising visionary screenplay by Terry Southern, Aram Avakian and Dennis McGuire. If you are a big fan of such end-of-sixties films as Performance and Two-Lane Blacktop, this is definitely your cup of tea.
After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner (Stacy Keach) is taken to "The Farm", a bizarre insane asylum run by Doctor D (James Earl Jones). After being "cured", Jacob takes a job as an English lecturer at a nearby college and begins a disastrous affair with the wife of a colleague. This is a niche art house film with a strong anti-establishment sensibility. End of the Road resonated with fans of the counter-culture movement and was viewed as shocking, powerful and controversial at the time of its release.
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