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Wyatt Earp
1994
Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, to his becoming a rigid, by-the-book sheriff. Also dramatized are Earp's relationships with his brothers and their wives, and .. Read more
| Starring | Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey |
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| Director | Lawrence Kasdan |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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Wyatt Earp
Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, to his becoming a rigid, by-the-book sheriff. Also dramatized are Earp's relationships with his brothers and their wives, and with loyal friend Doc Holliday, who is dying of tuberculosis. An epic (at least in length), this dark film stars Kevin Costner as Earp, Gene Hackman as his wilful father and Dennis Quaid as Doc Holiday.
| Starring | Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon, Michael Madsen, Catherine O'Hara, Bill Pullman, Todd Allen, David Andrews, Adam Baldwin, Betty Buckley, Annabeth Gish, Isabella Rossellini, JoBeth Williams, Tom Sizemore |
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| Director | Lawrence Kasdan |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 2 mins Blu-ray: 3 hrs 2 mins HD DVD: 3 hrs 2 mins |
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| Collections | 100 Wild Westerns |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English HD DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 14 Mar 2005 Blu-ray: 25 Feb 2008 HD DVD: 17 Mar 2008 Production year: 1994 |
| Format | DVD |
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Not every film in the western revival of the early 1990s was on a par with the Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves and Unforgiven. This TV movie is an ill-conceived attempt to wring the last drop out of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp series that ran for an amazing number of episodes on American TV between 1955 and 1961, and uses colourised clips from the black-and-white original. Hugh O'Brian returns in the role that made his name, searching for a gravestone inscription and confronting a cocky young sureshot. He pluckily attempts to roll back the years, but the story would have worked better as one of the original half-hour shows.
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Over-solemn retelling of a story familiar from many other Westerns, though never before at this length or detail. Moments of tedium are inevitable, and after a revisionist beginning the film finally settles for a celebration of a mythic hero, with Costner
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Second Thoughts
When I first saw this film in 1995 I was not overly impressed. Seeing it again changed my view considerably. Although a long film, as many Costner movies are, and with considerable focus on the American landscape, it combines an old fashioned western style with more of the realism expected of today's cinema.
Costner's performance from an 'innocent' young man to a much harder and cynical middle aged man is excellent. It makes Earp an interesting character, although at times, not always likeable.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
A good biopic
I am fascinated by the life of Wyatt Earp and thought this film was very well done and well handled. Costner was great but I think Dennis Quaid's was the stand out performance. I do think it was too long and seemed hard to get into at first but was constantly interesting. I highly recommend Tomstone which was released in the same year, more my taste but doesn't go into as much detail.
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- 12 May 2008
Lawrence (a bearded and tweedy Dennis Quaid) is a professor of literature and a pompous ass. Maybe the death of his wife made him that way - maybe he always had it in him, but he's organized his life in such a way that no one else gets much of a look in. Not his pissed off teenage son, James (Ashton Holmes); not his colleagues on the faculty; certainly not his poor students; and least of all his own ne'er do well brother Chuck (Thomas Haden Church). The only one who genuinely likes Lawrence is Read more
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