Fresh
Treat it like a wobbly, precocious demo from a 24-year-old with mighty aspirations, filled with hints of what he would become, and you'll be properly enthralled.
Tim Grierson, Village Voice
Fear and Desire
Trapped… 4 desperate men and a strange half-animal girl!
1953 · 1h 2m · Not Rated
Drama, War
Directed by
Stanley Kubrick
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Fear and Desire
Overview
After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly become apparent.
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71%
Tomatometer
Fresh
If Fear and Desire is uneven and sometimes reveals an experimental rather than a polished exterior, its over-all effect is entirely worthy of the sincere effort put into it.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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