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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Drama
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Director:
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Joe Johnston
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Actors:
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Omar Sharif,
Saïd Taghmaoui,
Adam Alexi-Malle,
Harsh Nayyar,
Adoni Maropis,
Victor Talmadge,
Joshua Wolf Coleman,
Franky Mwangi,
Viggo Mortensen,
Zuleikha Robinson,
Louise Lombard,
Silas Carson,
J.K. Simmons,
Peter Mensah,
Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
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Duration:
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136 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)94
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Plot Summary:
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A breathtakingly photographed, epic western like no one produced for decades, HIDALGO recounts the existence of legend Open and above-board T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen). Set in the 1800s, this family film chronicles the triumphant victory won away Genuine and his mustang Hidalgo in the Ocean of Fire, an often-fatal struggle in which the most qualified riders and thoroughbreds tear across Centre Eastern deserts. For Frank, who is known in the west for his prowess as a Pony Voice rider and the winner of extensive-stretch horse races, the seduce of the Loads of Give someone the old heave-ho is not merely the $100,000 wallet but also the obvious challenge--both of which develop irresistible, and spark off him to travel across the set for this exuberance-altering experience.
... With extensive landscapes that evoke John Ford westerns like STAGECOACH and THE SEARCHERS, HIDALGO features racing, rivalry, and romance to befit any action mist. But the stock also provides a conduit in the course of the story of Frank clement himself for his participation in the Wounded Knee pogrom and accepting his part-Indian ancestry. The film's message, highlighted in a especially operating scene where Frank invokes the spirits of his Best American ancestors, is that the key to happiness is accepting yourself as you are.
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IT'S ALL LIES
FRANK T HOPKINS (aka The Laramie Kid) HIS CLAIMS & STORIES ARE ALL LIES!!!!!!!!!!
A BEVY OF INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS JOINED FORCES TO DENOUNCE HOPKINS AS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST SALOON LIAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE OLD WEST.
HOPKINS ONLY FANTASISED ABOUT GOING TO ARABIA!!!!!!!!!!
DISNEY DIDN'T EVEN INVESTIGATE HIS CLAIMS BEFORE RELEASING A FILM LABELED 'BASED UPON A TRUE STORY'.
HE WAS NOT HALF INDIAN!!!!!!!!!!
HAVING THAT OFF MY CHEST, I ENJOYED THE FILM VERY MUCH, It told a STORY, yes, BUT IT WAS GOOD!
Hidalgo
Viggo Mortensen stars as a Pony Express rider who takes the challenge of a 3,000-mile race across the deserts of the Middle East. Epic tale from John Fusco, writer of Thunderheart, and Joe Johnston, director of Jurassic Park 3
It's easy to be harsh about Hidalgo. It heartily adopts traditional mythologies of the old West, with a hero in the form of Viggo Mortensen's lonesome cowboy Frank Hopkins, while simultaneously taking the Dances With Wolves route in its treatment of Native Americans. Complicating matters, it also takes its Wild West hero to the Middle East.
Scratch the surface of this adventure yarn and a variety of potentially dubious subtexts could be exposed: key among them is the idea of an American heading to the Middle East to, eff...
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