Tagline: No place to run. No reason to hide.
Following the day-to-day encounters of four wandering cattle ranchers living in the final years of the Wild West, this film tells the story of how they eventually team up to rid a burgeoning remote town, Harmonville, from the machinations of a ruthlessly evil rancher, Baxter, who forms a sort of “outlaw state” where he makes the laws and rules, and enforces them using scare tactics and brute force.
Academy Award-winning director Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves) helms this action-packed Western tale of a way of life that is quickly disappearing.
Charley Waite (Kevin Costner), Boss Spearman (Oscar winner Robert Duvall), “Button” (Diego Luna) and Mose Harrison (Abraham Benrubi), are all men trying to escape their pasts— and the one place where a man can be free is on the open range, driving cattle in a land where nature makes the only laws. Bound to each other by the “Code of the West”—standing up for what’s right, showing loyalty to those closest to you—the cowboys try to avoid violence. But one frontier town that rules through fear and tyranny changes their lives and forces them into action.
Amidst this turmoil, life suddenly takes an unexpected turn for loner Charley when he meets the spirited Sue Barlow (Oscar nominee Annette Bening), a woman who embraces both his heart and his soul. As these courageous men prepare for the decisive battle that looms, they are also forced to confront and conquer their own internal demons.
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Directed by: Kevin Costner
Starring: Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Abraham Benrubi, Robert Duvall, Michael Gambon, Diego Luna, Michael Jeter, Dean McDermott, James Russo
Screenplay by: Craig Storper
Production Design by: Gae S. Buckley
Cinematography by: James M. Muro
Film Editing by: Michael J. Duthie, Miklos Wright
Costume Design by: John Bloomfield
Set Decoration by: Mary-Lou Storey
Music by: Michael Kamen
MPAA Rating: R for violence.
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Release Date: August 15, 2003
