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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Deliverance, it turns a remote Southern wilderness journey into an escalating survival ordeal, with hostile terrain, fractured group dynamics, and stripped-down, nerve-racking momentum.
02
Why this pick
Its men-against-wilderness premise carries Deliverance’s bleak physical intensity and moral pressure, focusing on a small group worn down by landscape, fear, and conflicting instincts.
03
Why this pick
A reunion hike becomes a punishing backcountry nightmare, echoing Deliverance’s discomfort with masculine bravado and its sense that nature can expose people at their most vulnerable.
04
Why this pick
Though set in the Australian outback rather than on a river, it shares Deliverance’s sweaty, disorienting descent into an unfamiliar male world where civility feels perilously thin.
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Why this pick
This white-water thriller retains the riverborne suspense and practical outdoor danger of Deliverance, while making every rapid and campsite part of a tightly controlled threat.
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01 / THE STORY
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Ed Gentry
Lewis Medlock
Bobby Trippe
Drew Ballinger
Mountain Man
First Griner
Toothless Man
Ambulance Driver
