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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Western
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Director:
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Billy Bob Thornton
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Actors:
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Miriam Colon,
J.D. Young,
Laura Poe,
Yvette Diaz,
Imelda Colindres,
Augustin Solis,
Elizabeth Ibarra,
Lonnie Rodriguez,
Matt Damon,
Henry Thomas,
Penélope Cruz,
Sam Shepard,
Robert Patrick,
Lucas Black,
Rubén Blades
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Duration:
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112 min.
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Rating:
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(5.7/10)113.5
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Plot Summary:
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Billy Bob Thornton's ALL THE PRETTY HORSES is nearly John Grady Cole (Matt Damon), a pubescent rancher growing up at most after WWII. After his coddle sells the family ranch, John convinces his best friend, Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas), to accompany him to Mexico, where ranching is serene a outstanding part of life. Along the clearance they meet Jimmy Blevins (Lucas Treacherous), a winningly irrepressible attendant with a inconstant kidney. Eventually, John and Lacey end up on a huge ranch south of the border, where John falls for the wealthy rancher's daughter (Penelope Cruz). This leads to d... eadly trouble for the two puerile men, but John won't be dissuaded from pursuing his new dear one. Thornton has made a credible modern Western with this film, which gets rugged performances from Damon, Cruz, Thomas, and, in a celebrity-making successively, as the red Blevins. ALL THE Comely HORSES is at its first when focusing on the dusty details of the ranchers' knotty existence. Barry Markowitz's cinematography and Ted Tally's script (based on Cormac McCarthy's much-loved novel) capture a appealing and misery flavor in depicting a scope of living that seemed eat one's heart out since helpless settle while a hardy few were still living it.
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All the Pretty Horses
Texans Matt Damon and Henry Thomas encounter trouble and romance when they seek cowboy work in post war Mexico. Visually stunning with an excellent cast
The western gets dusted down and updated in this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's bestseller. Billy Bob Thornton, professional south westerner and writer/director of the Oscar-winning Sling Blade, takes the director's reins, while Ted Tally - who won an Oscar for The Silence Of The Lambs - does the writin'.
All The Pretty Horses has a solid premise - young men try to find a lifestyle where they can be men in a rapidly modernising world. The men are John Grady Cole (Damon) and Lacey Rawlins (Ell-i-ot from E.T., Thomas). When Cole's mother sells off his Texas ranch home, he convinces...
Something missing.
This film has the basis of a good tale (as the book surely is) but it's spoilt by the total lack of presence shown by Penelope Cruz ( what's all the fuss about??). I would like to have seen a lot more of Jimmy Blevins (played by Lucas Black),and for his performance I give the whole 3 stars.
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