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All the Pretty Horses

3.7

3,084

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Original title

All the Pretty Horses

Year

2000

Running time

117 min.

Country

United States

Director

Billy Bob Thornton

Screenwriter

Ted Tally. Novel: Cormac McCarthy

Cast

Music

Marty Stuart

Cinematography

Barry Markowitz

Producer

Columbia Pictures, Miramax

Genre

Western. Drama. Romance | Romantic Drama

Movie Groups

Cormac McCarthy Adaptations

Synopsis

This story tells the tale of a young Texan named John Grady Cole (Damon) who ventures across the border into 1940s Mexico after his mother sells the ranch where he grew up. Along with his friend Lacey Rawlins (Thomas), they pick up a young delinquent (Black) and eventually arrive at a hacienda where they are hired to break horses. But when he falls in love with the daughter (Cruz) of the ranch owner, it results in arrest, Mexican jail and a murder in self-defense.

Awards: 2000: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Original Score

2000: National Board of Review (NBR): Best Screenplay.

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Critics' reviews

"While Billy Bob Thornton's attractive, sombre Western doesn't exactly pull up lame, the award-winning book's poetic grandeur never makes it up there on the screen (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

Ian Nathan: Empire
"You can see how this movie could have been jacked up into a one-level action picture, but what makes it special is how Thornton modulates the material (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"An elegiac, visually hypnotic film about love, honor, reverence for nature and the loss of tradition"

Edward Guthmann: SFGATE
"A half-broken adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's great modern Western novel. Neither dull nor exciting."

Todd McCarthy: Variety
"Feels at once too slow and yet oddly truncated."

Rene Rodriguez: Miami Herald
"A string of gorgeous pictures whose visual impact doesn't nearly resonate with the potency of the book's."

Jay Carr: Boston Globe
"[It] manages to be shallow and portentous at the same time (...) in spite of some thoughtful performances and a handsome sense of scale, the picture is, for the most part, as slick and superficial as a Marlboro advertisement "

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"Only Barry Markowitz’s luminous camerawork does justice to the descriptive majesty of McCarthy’s prose"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone

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All the Pretty Horses

2000

Billy Bob Thornton

3.7

(3,084)