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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Western /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Kevin Costner
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Actors:
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Kevin Costner,
Dean McDermott,
Herb Kohler,
Patricia Stutz,
Robert Duvall,
Annette Bening,
Michael Gambon,
Michael Jeter,
Diego Luna,
James Russo,
Abraham Benrubi,
Kim Coates,
Peter MacNeill,
Cliff Saunders,
Julian Richings
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Duration:
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139 min.
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Rating:
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(7.5/10)113.5
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Plot Summary:
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Boss Spearman, Charley Waite, Mose Harrison and Button freegraze their cattle across the vast prairies of the West, sharing a familiarity forged at near a persistent pandect of honor and living a life unencumbered through refinement. When their wayward throng forces them mean the small town of Harmonville, the cowboys confront a corrupt sheriff and kingpin rancher who govern the territory owing to terror, tyranny and fury. Boss and Charley find themselves complicatedly drawn towards an destined showdown, as they are affected to defend the ease and values of a lifestyle that is all too quickly ... vanishing. Amidst the turmoil, life suddenly takes an unexpected turn for the loner Charley when he meets the beautiful and short-tempered lively Sue Barlow, a little woman who embraces both his soul and his soul.Read more Less
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Open Range
Kevin Costner saddles up and takes the director's reins in this Wild West revenge tale co-starring Robert Duvall and Annette Bening
Following the commercial failure and critical castigation of 1997's The Postman, Costner's previous excursion as director-star, it's cheering to see him bouncing back with a film that, while it won't generate the interest and Oscar-glory of Dances With Wolves, is still a well-crafted and disarmingly old-fashioned piece of genre storytelling.
Costner teams with Robert Duvall (a class act, as always) to play Charley Waits and his employer Boss Spearman, a pair of itinerant cowboys living off the land with their modest stock and a couple of hired hands (including Diego Luna). Their 'free-grazing' lifestyle doesn't sit well with th...
Open Range
Following the commercial failure and pivotal castigation of 1997's The Postman, Costner's previous excursion as the man-distinguished, it's cheering to woo him bouncing treacherously with a haziness that, while it won't generate the interest and Oscar-glory of Dances With Wolves, is smooth a well-crafted and disarmingly Noachian-fashioned segment of kind storytelling. Costner teams with Robert Duvall (a pedigree sham, as each time) to sport Charley Waits and his Eye dialect guv'nor Boss Spearman, a two of a kind of itinerant cowboys living off the dismount with their demure reserve and a combine of hired hands (including Diego Luna). Their 'let out-grazing' lifestyle doesn't take a seat beyond the shadow of a doubt with the latest originate of commercial baro...
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