Billy Bob Thornton's ALL THE PRETTY HORSES is about John Grady Cole (Matt Damon), a young rancher growing up just after WWII. After his mother sells the family ranch, John convinces his best friend, Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas), to accompany him to Mexico, where ranching is still a big part of life. Along the way they meet .. Read more
| Starring | Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black |
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| Director | Billy Bob Thornton |
| Genres | Drama |
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Billy Bob Thornton's ALL THE PRETTY HORSES is about John Grady Cole (Matt Damon), a young rancher growing up just after WWII. After his mother sells the family ranch, John convinces his best friend, Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas), to accompany him to Mexico, where ranching is still a big part of life. Along the way they meet Jimmy Blevins (Lucas Black), a winningly enthusiastic boy with a volatile nature. Eventually, John and Lacey end up on a huge ranch south of the border, where John falls for the wealthy rancher's daughter (Penelope Cruz). This leads to deadly trouble for the two young men, but John won't be dissuaded from pursuing his new love. Thornton has made a credible modern Western with this film, which gets strong performances from Damon, Cruz, Thomas, and, in a star-making turn, Black as the fiery Blevins. ALL THE PRETTY HORSES is at its best when focusing on the dusty details of the ranchers' hard existence. Barry Markowitz's cinematography and Ted Tally's script (based on Cormac McCarthy's much-loved novel) capture a sweet and melancholy flavor in depicting a way of life that seemed long since lost even while a hardy few were still living it.
| Starring | Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Ruben Blades, Miriam Colon, Bruce Dern, Robert Patrick, Sam Shepard |
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| Director | Billy Bob Thornton |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 52 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | Production year: 2000 To Rent: DVD: 05 Nov 2001 |
A uneven attempt at an elegiac Western, combining nostalgia for a vanishing way of life with a coming-of-age narrative; but the central romance has no life to it, and it ends up as just another love story between two men and their horses.
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Something missing.
This film has the basis of a good tale (as the book surely is) but it's spoilt by the total lack of presence shown by Penelope Cruz ( what's all the ... read more »
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Unimpressive adaptation. Read the book instead.
Perhaps I was spoiled by reading the book first as I found this film adaptation pretty dull. It followed the plot as faithfully as you'd expect a film to do... read more »
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disappointing ending
Very poor ending story just fizzled out as though the director had lost his way ? which was a shame as some very funny bits in it
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Horses are pretty
subtle and well scripted - the story is evocatively filmed and has strength of purpose - works well alongside the novel and supports Mccarthy's story.
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