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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Western
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Director:
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Ed Harris
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Actors:
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Luce Rains,
Ariadna Gil,
Erik J. Bockemeier,
Benjamin Rosenshein,
Cerris Morgan-Moyer,
James Tarwater,
Freddie Hice,
Ed Harris,
Viggo Mortensen,
Renée Zellweger,
Jeremy Irons,
Timothy Spall,
Tom Bower,
James Gammon,
Timothy V. Murphy
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Duration:
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115 min.
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Rating:
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(6.9/10)185.5
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Plot Summary:
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When two gunmen, Virgil Cole and Everett Jerk, arrive in Appaloosa they deal a diminished, dusty and chaotic town trial at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg. Bragg has not only entranced supplies, horses and women for his own, but also has left the metropolis marshal and a ambassador for done for. In Bragg they ascertain an unusually wily antagonistic who raises the stakes by playing with emotions. It is now up to Cole and Hitch to stand against the actions of the rancher, which receive already taken their toll on the village.
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superb.......................
This dvd is superb. Appaloosa is a Western film based on novel Appaloosa by crime writer Robert B. Parker.
It stars Ed Harris (who also directs the film), and Viggo Mortensen (of Lord Of The Rings fame).
Appaloosa is centred around lawman Virgil Cole (played by Ed Harris) and his sidekick Everett Hitch (played by Viggo Mortensen), who are two friends who are hired to defend a lawless 1880s town from a murderous rancher - Randall Bragg (played by Jeremy Irons).
Their efforts are disrupted and their friendship is tested by the arrival of an attractive widow - Allie French (played by Renée Zellweger of Bridget Jones fame).
Well worth watching.
Appaloosa
Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen ride upfront as the stoical lawmen who aim to rein in a gang of disorderly cowpokes in Appaloosa, New Mexico
It sounds like the set-up for a straight-shooting Hollywood western, but Ed Harris, in his second directorial outing after the Oscar-winning Pollock (2000), takes a left-field approach. The gunplay between the good guys and the bad guys merely opens the way for an unconventional romance yarn. Ren??e Zellweger plays the itinerant widow who catches the eye of both Virgil (Harris) and Everett (Mortensen) and yet the truest expression of love comes in low-key moments between the two leading men.
From the opening few minutes, there is a sense of this old west world tipped slightly off-kilter. However, it isn't always intentional. Jere...
Appaloosa
Kenneth TuranNo sound lightens a moviegoer's heart more than pounding hoofbeats heard before the opening credits. A western is about to begin, and, if everything goes right, nothing can be better than that.
Appaloosa, the latest film to start with that familiar sound, has done much right, but not everything. Based on a novel by Robert B. Parker, its story -- of how a woman comes between two men in the New Mexico territory of 1882 -- has its virtues undercut by the way that critical female role has been handled.
Directed, co-written by and starring Ed Harris, Appaloosa is in large part a satisfying example of the genre because it respects tradition and understands how to modernize familiar moves. And, in Harris and costar Viggo Mortensen, it has...
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