OPEN RANGE at HOLLYWOOD TEEN MOVIES

TITLE : Open Range
YEAR OF RELEASE : 2003
CLASSIFICATION : M
DIRECTOR : Kevin Costner

STARRING : Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter, Diego Luna, James Russo, Abraham Benrubi, Dean McDermott, Kim Coates, Herb Kohler, Peter MacNeill, Cliff Saunders, Patricia Stutz, Julian Richings.

TAGLINES :
No place to run. No reason to hide.

Kevin Costner is back in the saddle as director & actor for this epic western that is expected to inject new life into the sagebrush genre. The plot revolves around a former gunfighter who is forced to use his old skills to defend his cattlemen & take on a corrupt lawman. Co-starring with Costner in this one are Hollywood veterans Robert Duvall & Annette Bening. Early reports suggest that Costner is on a winner with this one, so if its six-gun action you are after, strap on your holster, dust off your ten-gallon hat, polish your spurs & head straight to your local multi-plex for a riproaring good-time.

For Open Range, his third film as director, Kevin Costner returns to the West and it is clear that back in the saddle is where he is most comfortable. This is a western with classic elements in which Costner is also joined by actor’s actor, Robert Duvall.

It’s the 1880s and the Old West is disappearing fast as modernisation encroaches. Boss Spearman (Duvall) and Charley Waite (Costner), his employee for 10 years, are cattlemen, moving a herd through the open range accompanied by two more recent members of the team, Mose Harrison (Abraham Benrubi) and 16-year-old Button (Diego Luna).

When they move outside a small town run by Irish immigrant, Denton Baxter (Michael Gambon) - a man who is violently opposed to the idea of free grazing - they run into trouble. Mose is beaten up and thrown into gaol when he goes to town on an errand and the young Button is also left in a bad way by Baxter’s thugs.

The peaceful existence that Boss and his men have sought is at an end. Baxter wants them out and, with the help of the town’s ruthless sheriff, Poole (James Russo) who is also on his payroll, he intends to get what he wants. Boss, a man who has always preferred to avoid violence and Charley, who for the last 10 years has been trying to leave a violent past behind him, know that their freedom is threatened and that they must have revenge.

They find some allies - namely a doctor (Dean McDermott), a stable keeper (Michael Jeter) and the doc’s sister, Sue (Annette Bening) who also brings a breath of romance to Charley’s life.

In the tradition of classic westerns like High Noon and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Open Range climaxes with a showdown and a decisive shootout that is both exciting and brutal.

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Open Range [DVD](2003) DVD
With the face of the American West changing, grizzled cowboys Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner (who also directed) are among the last of a dying breed of cattle drivers. As they push their herd across the 1880s Midwest, Duvall and Costner find themselves in the middle of a violent dispute with greedy rancher Michael Gambon, who's ordered them and their "free-grazers" off his land. Annette Bening, Michael Jeter, Abraham Benrubi co-star. 139 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1, French; Subtitles: Spanish; audio commentary by Costner; documentaries; deleted scenes; storyboard; music video. Two-disc set.
Open Range(2003) VHS