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The Ninth Configuration |  | Director: William Peter Blatty
Actors: SCOTT WILSON, STACY KEACH, George DiCenzo, Ed Flanders, Moses Gunn
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 35955
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0790761572
UPC: 085391441427
EAN: 9780790761572
ASIN: B0000696IA
Theatrical Release Date: August 8, 1980
Release Date: September 17, 2002
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Product Description
Somewhere in a distant forest, there is a military installation where mind games are going on that lead to terror.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 17-SEP-2002
Media Type: DVD
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The lunatics are running the asylum... but are they really lunatics? Is Colonel Kane (Stacy Keach) really a noted psychiatrist, assigned to supervise patients in an experimental government clinic, or is he really "Killer" Kane, a decorated U.S. Marine who committed atrocities in Vietnam before going insane? And why did Captain Cutshaw (Scott Wilson) go berserk just seconds before a scheduled rocket launch? These are just some of the puzzles that will eventually be solved in The Ninth Configuration, a giddy and often brilliant drama created by William Peter Blatty, who wrote The Exorcist before directing this adaptation of his own novel, Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane. A satirical study of war's traumatic aftermath, the film uses battle psychosis as the springboard for a delirious and scathingly intelligent human tragedy, laced with some of the wittiest dialogue you're ever likely to hear. The movie boasts a veritable menagerie of crazy characters, all brought vividly to life by a stellar supporting cast. One patient is preparing a production of Shakespeare with an all-dog cast. Another is convinced he's Superman, and the resident doctor can't seem to find his trousers. But there's a method to this madness, and it takes a barroom brawl--one of the most memorable in movie history--to provide the harsh slap of reality to Blatty's elaborate group therapy scheme. When the true purpose of The Ninth Configuration is revealed, the film (and particularly the fine performances of Keach and Wilson) reveals a depth of compassionate sanity that may take you completely by surprise. --Jeff Shannon Reviews “Visually stunning, immensely moving and hugely entertaining, The Ninth Configuration stands as a landmark in American cinema history.” --South Bay Magazine “The finest largescale American surrealist film ever made. It belongs in a textbook for directors on how to build suspense.” --Peter Travers, People Magazine “Hilarious⦠with endlessly quotable dialogue and an amazing barroom fight scene that has audiences screaming from their seats.” --Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide “The film is a masterpiece.” --The Cincinnati Post “It’s a cosmic love story, a Gothic war movie and a metaphysical murder mystery. You have never seen anything quite like it.” --Santa Monica Evening Outlook
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 Bridging The Void... July 17, 2010
Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein (under the rubble)
THE NINTH CONFIGURATION deals w/ life, death, stress, trauma, war, psychosis, faith, philosophy, evolution, and more. It's a convergence of ideas, a whirlpool of thought for us to (gladly) drown in! William Peter Blatty's THE EXORCIST concerned darkness and light, set against the backdrop of modern agnosticism and spiritual aridity. CONFIGURATION is this taken further, to the point of the existential abyss, where a choice is required. Do we die as meaningless collections of molecules, or have we existed for a reason? I have never seen a film as beautiful or as set in its convictions. Blatty drives the message home that love stands as proof of something (someone?) greater than ourselves. He does this without preaching a sermon or beating a pulpit. He simply tells the truth as he sees it. Miraculous stuff indeed...
One of The Greatest Movies I've Ever Seen +++ June 18, 2010
Kevin Kiersky (Olympia, WA USA)
This a one-of-a-kind movie and experience. I love the surreal setting of a Castle hiding in the mist-and-rain of the Pacific Northwest greenwood. Which is used to great effect thru-out the presentation. The presentation starts-out with increasing humor -- and oddness. The viewer is put off-balance from the start -- and this is refreshed by the many odd turns-and-twists as the presentation flows along -- like a wildly zigzaging Northwest greenwood whitewater stream. The "Pacific Northwest Castle" is in Hungary by-the-way -- that misty rainy greenwood sure LOOKS like here [Pacific Northwest]. The winding road up to the Castle looks like adventure too.
Indeed the foreground and background settings are used thru-out in accord or discord with the dialog and activity of the excellent words, acting and actors. They not only have some of the most witty, clever, intellegent lines EVER -- but act with wonderfully fitting feeling via eyes, voice and body -- which does get VERY INTENSE many times. The viewer gets a crash-course in Theological Dialectics -- just after 44:44 in particular -- which may hit some ["unfaithful"] folks like a volley of laser cannon. The entanglement of this presentation is SO WELL-DONE -- what really happens, what is hidden, who-is-whom, who dreams whose dreams???
This SURREAL experience is VERY GRAPHIC and MORE REAL than is comfortable -- this INTENSTY will NOT let most viewers escape un-moved and thrilled. Be aware that this includes VERY INTENSE confrontation, humiliation and resolution via GRAPHICALLY REAL bloody combat situated in a long drawn-out bar-setting -- Marine Combat Judo versus Biker Gang Cruelty. NOT for half-hearted folks -- BUT THRILLING for some -- justice, humanity and sacrifice -- TO LOVE +++
3 GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS December 27, 2009
Joel Cairo
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Unnoticed on this site is the fact that, under its alternate title
"TWINKLE, TWINKLE, 'KILLER' KANE!", this film was nominated
by the Golden Globes for "Best Picture" along with ORDINARY PEOPLE,
THE ELEPHANT MAN, RAGING BULL and THE STUNT MAN, and
won the award for "Best Writing."
Idiosyncratic and endessly quotable classic September 24, 2009
Kurtz (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a forgotten masterpiece. Filmed by William Peter Blatty with a lot of elements that went into The Exorcist. Religion, science and philosophy/ psychiatry are all explored in this with a perfectly cast group of actors delivering memorable performances.
The sort of movie that once you "get it" you cant stop watching it. The bar scene alone is a piece of wonderful cinema with fantstic dialogue and terrific acting.
 Blur Boundaries September 6, 2009
Michael Kerjman
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
It is the US movie in a post-Vietnam line of exploring psychiatric effect on servicemen involved in different military projects.
Mix of paranoiac, mystic, gothic while boundaries between professional researchers and their objects, asylum and outside life are really blur and invisible sometimes.
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