Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 113m
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Cast: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Kayli Carter, Booboo Stewart, Lesley Manville
Synopsis:
Montana, the 1950s: a retired lawman and his wife lose their son in a riding accident, and then their grandson when the daughter-in-law remarries into white trash. When the unhappy family disappears one night across the state line, the stage is set for a reckoning.
Review:
Diane Lane's hard-as-nails performance as the grandma anchors this film, which begins as a conventional mid-century drama before pulling out all the stops as a gothic western with Manville's matriarch serving her famous pork chops before chopping off Costner's fingers. Buried in there is a sweet little subtext about horse whispering and a subplot involving a Native American boy who has run away from Indian school, but this is one of the drawbacks in adapting a novel which packs in a range of themes (maternity, blood line, racism, horses, strength of the traditional family unit) only to resolve them in an over the top - 'You can go to hell!' - fire fight. Still, there's a lot worse on Netflix.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 113m
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Cast: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Kayli Carter, Booboo Stewart, Lesley Manville
Synopsis:
Montana, the 1950s: a retired lawman and his wife lose their son in a riding accident, and then their grandson when the daughter-in-law remarries into white trash. When the unhappy family disappears one night across the state line, the stage is set for a reckoning.
Review:
Diane Lane's hard-as-nails performance as the grandma anchors this film, which begins as a conventional mid-century drama before pulling out all the stops as a gothic western with Manville's matriarch serving her famous pork chops before chopping off Costner's fingers. Buried in there is a sweet little subtext about horse whispering and a subplot involving a Native American boy who has run away from Indian school, but this is one of the drawbacks in adapting a novel which packs in a range of themes (maternity, blood line, racism, horses, strength of the traditional family unit) only to resolve them in an over the top - 'You can go to hell!' - fire fight. Still, there's a lot worse on Netflix.
