The movie
Show notes
Star Wars: A New Hope Welcome to The Guys Review, where we review media, products and experiences. **READ APPLE REVIEWS/Fan Mail** Mention Twitter DM group - like pinned tweet Read emails Star Wars Episode 4, A New Hope The first installment of the original Star Wars trilogy, the first of the franchise to be produced, and the fourth episode of the "Skywalker saga". Written and Directed by: George Lucas Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Peter Mayhew Released May 25th, 1977 Budget: $11M ($48.9M 2021) Box Office: $775.8M ($3.5B 2021) Ratings: IMDb 8.6/10 Rotten Tomatoes 92% Metacritic 90% Google Users 91% Surpassed Jaws (1975) to become the highest-grossing film at the time until the release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). When adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is the second-highest-grossing film in North America (behind Gone with the Wind ) and the fourth-highest-grossing film in the world. It received ten Oscar nominations (including Best Picture), winning seven. In 1989, it became one of the first 25 films that was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". At the time, it was the most recent film in the registry and the only one chosen from the 1970s. In 2004, its soundtrack was added to the U.S. National Recording Registry, and was additionally listed by the American Film Institute as the best movie score of all time a year later. Today, it is widely regarded by many in the motion picture industry as one of the greatest and most important films in film history. First time you saw the movie? Plot: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... The intro crawl tells of a galatic civil war, how the rebels obtained schematics for the imperial death star and we join our heros trying to escape the empire. We then drop into a space battle over
More episodes about Star Wars
