Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer

In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter.

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PG, 2 hrs. 40 min.

Directed by: Sydney Pollack

Release Date: December 18, 1985

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DVD Release Date: January 29, 2002

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  • July 26, 2008
    A beautiful picture, thanks to the photographer David Watkin, and composer John Barry. Redford and Streep are also neat in their roles. It drags a bit at some parts, but the overall impression is captivating, and the dilemmas and arguments it raises are quite fascinating as well,...( read more) like solitude versus compromise, adultery, illness, death, ostracism.

    mighty spectacular.
  • October 1, 2007
    Robert Redford was so handsome back then!
  • September 1, 2007
    There?s no wonder Out of Africa is one of the 80?s most known and memorable movies since it has Sidney Pollack as director and a cast lead by the amazing Meryl Streep supported by Robert Redford. A movie with such people in it simply can?t go wrong, and at the end you get a timel...( read more)ess classic to watch over and over even after 20 or 30 years from its original release.

    The story is about Meryl Streep a Danish woman who marries this guy and moves with him to Africa where they will invest with her money in a coffee raising project which wasn?t the original plan. And we watch the movie with the parallel narration of Meryl Streep. The movie feels like a story, it doesn?t have any complicated pacing or movie making drama to make it look as if it?s more interesting. It just took the all typical plot and made into a wonderful experience. Many aspects in the story makes you laugh from its way of looking at things. For instance, the love triangle formed By Meryl Streep, her husband and Robert Redford. The relation between all three of them was funny in its own way. But the main romance between Streep and Redford was timeless, one of the best ever.

    Another great aspect in the movie is that at the beginning Meryl mentions that her lover gave her two gifts. And then through the movie we discover how those gifts were given in the most peculiar way. And I must say the second gift wasn?t only for Meryl, it was a privilege or a blessing for all of us viewers of the movie. Seeing Africa from the eyes of God. This scene must be one of the greatest scenes in movie making history. You just feel your heart leap as if you re with them on that plane all thanks to Sydney Pollack who truly deserved his best director award which was enough only for this scene. Every angle he took and the way he showed this trip was wonderful. Enough to make you cry and visit this land. But the scene couldn?t have been the same if it wasn?t followed by the out of this world musical score of John Barry which became an instant classic and one of the greatest ever. It?s like he?s translating the emotional state of Streep from the take-off of the plane, then during the trip over Africa. It was so amazing words can?t even describe it. The nuance and the emotions put in it are wonderful.

    And of course another main strong point of in the movie is the mind blowing duo formed by Streep and Redford. Meryl Streep just can?t go wrong playing a foreign role. It?s amazing how she masters the accent in every possible way. Shows what great power she has over herself how she keeps the accent steady through all the emotions she goes through. Even when she?s screaming and scared, she gets the accent right proving the professional genius she really is. And of course I?m not exaggerating when I say that she is the most talented living actor. A sham,e she didn't win the oscar for this. And Robert Redford did a very great job too as her lover. One of the best couples ever.

    The movie had a wonderful technical team. The costumes were great so was the art direction. But what really attracted me was the cinematography. The cinematographer really knew how to take advantage of this land where they are shooting. It was one of the best.
  • July 31, 2007
    fantastic. if you haven't seen it, see it now.
  • March 4, 2007
    Nice to look at, but really slow paced.
  • November 12, 2009
    This is one of my favourite movies of all time. Meryl Streep and Robert Redford positively shine in this beautiful story of a doomed love in the sweeping lands of Kenya. Streep is absolutely stunning, maintaining her accent throughout the film and drawing viewers into her world. ...( read more)"I had a farm in Africa". Love. It.
  • November 10, 2009
    A romantic movie, show when you love someone onsides it hurts, you want to settle they want freedom. In the end Deny dies in a plane crash, hated that.
  • November 5, 2009
    a nice film prized with an academy award for foreigner film
  • October 31, 2009
    Romantic moving great
  • October 24, 2009
    I am a sucker for romance!

Critic Reviews


January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Out of Africa is a great movie to look at, breathtakingly filmed on location. It is a movie with the courage to be about complex, sweeping emotions, and to use the star power of its actors without apo... full review

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  • terris85017
    November 9, 2008
    What? No comments on this 1985 film?? Won 7 Academy Awards..yet some have still given it no respect?!? A toast..."Rose-lipped maidens, light-footed lads." (1985 Direector: Sydney Pollack) Ever tried Kenyan coffee? It is superb--the flavor of an expresso but without the harshness....The new Baroness (& the Baron...aka "My Lover's Brother") move to Kenya, marry & begin a coffee plantation...a 3-4year cash crop...[Dialogue between the young couple: "I didn't buy cattle. We are going to grow coffee. That's not what we planned [the Baroness protests!]" About the best film I have ever seen!! Some amazing quotes, perhaps the most famous of which are: "I once had a farm in Africa.." based on a true story written under the pen name of Isak Dinesen. http://as.starware.com/dp/search?qry=out+of+africa&src_id=381&client_id=977F751001C7748A00FCCCCC&product=rsearch&serv=web&subproduct=site&version=4.5.2.0&it=1175451706&step=2&rs_prev=africa+movie&serv=web A toast..."Rose-lipped maidens, lig
  • fhiostest
    March 21, 2007
    Very good film of the book adaptation.

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