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- Nearly every time someone foolishly proclaims the Western is dead, along comes a well-crafted, entertaining film like Appaloosa to prove the genre is alive and kicking. Based on a Robert B. Parker 2005 novel, this oddball buddy movie respects the Western’s traditions but also cleverly subverts convention.
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Oct 2, 2008 · They’re hired by the town of Appaloosa to end a reign of terror under the evil rancher Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons). So already you’ve got an A-list cast. Harris plays a man of few words, many of them pronounced incorrectly, and steel resolve.
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Appaloosa: Directed by Ed Harris. With Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Robert Jauregui, Jeremy Irons. Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Ed Harris
- 2008-10-03
In this classic Western, buffalo hunter Matt Fletcher (Marlon Brando) plans on starting a horse breeding farm with his friend Paco (Rafael Campos) in the border town of Ojo Prieto. But when a ...
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- Marlon Brando
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APPALOOSA has a number of things to recommend it -- Harris is an able director, the ensemble cast is first rate, and the story is based on a novel by best-selling author Robert B. Parker. (Parker is perhaps best known for the Spenser private eye series.)
- Ed Harris, Jeremy Irons, Viggo Mortensen
- Ed Harris
- New Line
"The Appaloosa" is a superior low-key western with a great performance by Marlon Brando and very good ones by John Saxon and Anjanette Comer. Brando plays a white man raised by Mexicans who returns from the Civil War tired of killing and ready to build a ranch around one Appaloosa stallion.
Appaloosa is a 2008 American Western film based on the 2005 novel Appaloosa by crime writer Robert B. Parker. Directed by Ed Harris and co-written by Harris and Robert Knott, Appaloosa stars Harris alongside Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger and Jeremy Irons.
The Appaloosa combines a British feeling for style and manners with that wide-open North American vigor. But the snow scenes are strictly from Canada. Full Review | Jun 27, 2019