Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Estelle Parsons

In the early 1930s, a car thief and the daughter of his intended victim team up to become America's most feared and ruthless bank robbers.

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R, 1 hr. 51 min.

Directed by: Arthur Penn

Release Date: August 13, 1967

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  • October 1, 2009
    Classic 'On the run' road movie with a huge influence on film making thereafter. The direction is brilliant and quite revolutionary in American cinema. The cast are also superb, especially Beatty and the very sexy Dunaway. A classic that deserves to be classic but there are no ha...( read more)ppy endings here, as you will see in what is still one of the most shocking and violent finales ever!
  • July 6, 2009
    I have always been engrossed by stories of notorious gangsters or serial killers. The real factor and what people are really capable of gets to me and I find myself caught up in the stories. For that reason, I love this movie.
    Warren Beatty was quite handsome back then, and Faye...( read more) Dunaway was very beautiful. The two of them play these two legends well, and have great chemistry together.
    I think they tell the story of Bonnie and Clyde very well in this film. I also love that is showcases so many stars, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Denver " Uncle Jesse" Pyle, Michael J. Pollard... who I love in Summer Magic..., Gene Wilder, and Estelle Parsons who everyone probably remembers as Rosanne's mother.
    If you haven't seen this 1967 classic, it is definitely a must see.
  • May 28, 2009
    A key influence on Tarantino-era cinema with its fast cutting and hip amorality (this is the movie that upped the ante on acceptable levels of screen violence and popularised slo-mo bulletfests before even Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch of two years later), this ode to real-life Depr...( read more)ession-era bankrobbers Clyde Barrow (Beatty, who also produced) and Bonnie Parker (Dunaway) scored a surprise hit for Warner Brothers.
    Encouraging then hit-starved studios to target the previously dismissed youth market, which had responded so enthusiastically to the film, Bonnie and Clyde - for better or worse - paved the way for future cultural milestones like Easy Rider and, of course, Star Wars.
  • March 25, 2009
    Most historical dramas are inaccurate as hell. Honestly, would you pay to watch someones ho-hum life for two hours, even if there was a little excitement thrown in. Hollywood has to take a few liberties. With Bonnie and Clyde you get a few of those to jazz it up a bit. The film i...( read more)s about a girl named Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) who stumbles on a boy named Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) attempting to steal her mothers car. Well, we all know what happens when (semi) good girls meet bad boys- she runs off with him and the crime spree begins. They move up from stealing cars and holding up grocery stores to robbing banks and capturing the public eye; obsessing for the public eye. Along the way they pick up a driver named C. W. Moss (Michael Pollard) and drag Clyde's brother (a brilliantGene Hackman) and his wife (Estelle Parsons) into the melee.

    You know how Bonnie and Clyde is going to end. The film is watching a raging fire that's about to burn itself out and will be just a pile of dead embers in a few hours. It's the characters destiny. Making it a tougher film to make, but director Arthur Penn is able to give us a film that is half news reel and half documentary. Instead of hardened criminals lusting for blood you get people with personalities. This is probably WarrenBeatty's best role of his career as he gives Clyde depth and accomplishes a hard feat: we forget that it's Warren Beatty. We believe it's Clyde Barrow. Faye Dunaway does the same. She's transformed into that girl from a Texas, yet there's still that glamour on the screen. Gene Hackman is one of the driving forces in the middle of the film. His portrayal of Buck Barrow is of a jovial figure, yet with a heavy heart that he and his wife have been drug into this mess. An early masterpiece fromHackman.

    Bonnie and Clyde is an enjoyable ride to the end of the wick so to speak. Violent beyond its years (considering it was released before the ratings system) it doesn't glorify its violence. There is actual regret over the dead that was unusual in films at that point. The film was ahead of it.s time and remains a great classic.
  • December 30, 2008
    "So Fucked Up" highlight: murder at the conclusion
  • November 17, 2009
    based on the true story of 1930's with real life of bonnie parker and clyde barrow(both good performances by faye dunaway(wow what a sexy!) and warren beatty)of bank rob with their gangs. wonderful of each scene in rob banks scene and with violence and bloody and also with agains...( read more)t with the polices scene moment. also gene hackman starring role as clyde barrow's brother buck. one of the good latest action and the truestory flick i seen and with the performances.
  • November 17, 2009
    Review coming soon...

    99/100
  • November 16, 2009
    Does anyone knows how to get bonnie and clyde's soundtrack??? i would really appriciate....
  • November 6, 2009
    Storico, sfido chiunque a non esserci rimasto male per il finale.
  • October 29, 2009
    Great peformance from great stars.A VERY good gangster movie

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

When I saw it, I had been a film critic for less than six months, and it was the first masterpiece I had seen on the job. I felt an exhilaration beyond describing. full review

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