

During the 1960's a group of three friends named Mike, Nick and Steve work at a steel mill. They live their lives happily and participate in deer hunting as one of their favorite activities. One of the friends named Steve gets married and looks to live a nice lifestyle. However the lives of the three friends changes as they are sent to Vietnam to serve. While in Vietnam they get captured by Vietnamese enemies and are taken to a POW camp. At the camp they play Russian roulette in order to entertain the captors. Fortunately for the three friends they escape but are very traumatized by this event. During the escape they get onto a helicopter but Steve falls down into a river. Mike goes in to save him and gets both of them to land. However Steve suffers from leg injuries and becomes crippled as a result.
After this ordeal Mike goes home and becomes very troubled by his experience. He has difficulty adjusting to his life back in the United States. Meanwhile Nick stays in Vietnam and is introduced to gambling through playing Russian roulette by a Frenchman. He becomes very successful at this game and wins lots of money. After a while Mike learns from Steve that the friend his still in Vietnam and is winning lots of money there as a gambler. He goes back to Vietnam to reunite with him and tries to reason with him to come back home. In the end Nick kills himself and his funeral is held back in the United States. The remaining friends and family gather at a restaurant to eat a meal and mourn his death.
The Deer Hunter is an Drama, War movie that was released in 1978 and has a run time of 3 hr 2 min. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 8.1 and a MetaScore of 86.
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