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Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Details

2007 Certificate 15
  • Rated:
  • 60
  • from 45,474 members

Robert Ford joins Jesse James's gang, only to become resentful of the legendary outlaw and hatch a plan to kill the fastest gun in the West. Read more

Starring Brad Pitt, Mary-Louise Parker, Sam Rockwell, Michael Parks
Director Andrew Dominik
Genres Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive

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Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Robert Ford joins Jesse James's gang, only to become resentful of the legendary outlaw and hatch a plan to kill the fastest gun in the West.

Starring Brad Pitt, Mary-Louise Parker, Sam Rockwell, Michael Parks, Sam Shepard
Director Andrew Dominik
Studio WARNER BROS
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 40 mins
Blu-ray: 2 hrs 35 mins
HD DVD: 2 hrs 35 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Collections New releases
Genres Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive
Language DVD: English, English Audio Description
Blu-ray: English
HD DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: English, Arabic, Hebrew, Icelandic
Released DVD: 31 Mar 2008
Blu-ray: 31 Mar 2008
HD DVD: not available
Production year: 2007
Format DVD
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  • Where does criminality end and celebrity begin is the question posed by Australian director Andrew Dominik whose... read more on Time Out

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  • 223 out of 244 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    Waste of time

    There is a good story hidden somewhere in this film, but please don't waste almost 3 hours of your life trying to find it. Brad Pitt is rubbish, and so are most of the other actors, easily the worst film I have seen this year.

      • A customer from St. Albans
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  • 12 out of 12 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    3 hours of tedious viewing!

    I've never been a fan of westerns but decided to watch this as Brad Pitt was in it. It was hard to watch simply because it was so boring. I started hoping early on in the film that the assination would happen so I could be put out of my misery! I strongly recommend avoiding this tedious attempt at whatever this film was supposed to be!

      • A customer from SW London
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    Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    • 26 Nov 2007

    It sounds like the name of a painting. Or possibly the name of the theatrical sketch in which Ford reenacted his inglorious deed several hundred times for the benefit of eager Easterners. It suggests a pivotal moment, frozen in time. And that's what it's about. There are things you should know going in. This isn't an action-packed celebration of derring-do - not by a long chalk. In fact Andrew Dominick's movie concentrates exclusively on the tail end of Jesse James' career. We only see one... Read more

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45,474 Member ratings
  • 100
2,771
  • 90
2,057
  • 80
7,186
  • 70
6,503
  • 60
9,618
  • 50
4,539
  • 40
5,477
  • 30
2,482
  • 20
3,422
  • 10
1,419

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