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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783114996
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783114990
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 31, 1999
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 6983
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 17, 1999
Editorial Review:
Description:
When wealthy landowner Henry Ballard sets up a toll gate and takes two of Myrl Redding?s horses in lieu of payment, Redding is enraged. But when those horses are starved and beaten almost to death, he demands justice. So begins a personal feud that becomes a war .. a war that becomes a manhunt ... and a trial that will lead to a bloody kind of Western justice.
Amazon.com:
The Jack Bull was produced for and premiered on HBO, but it's easily the most respectable job that feature director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, WarGames) has done in the past two decades. The title refers not to a piece of livestock but a metaphorical Jack Russell terrier that, once it's annoyed enough to close its jaws on something, will hang on to the point of death.
That would be Myrl Redding (John Cusack), a horse-breeder of limited means but a deeply entrenched sense of justice. His independence galls Henry Ballard (L.Q. Jones), the crusty land baron out to set his brand on most of the countryside. Ballard insults and cheats Redding several times over, and his men beat Redding's horse trainer and friend, an Indian (Rodney A. Grant). When Redding seeks redress from the law, its agents can't be bothered (the local magistrate is in Ballard's pocket). So Redding musters a vigilante army to enforce his own law.
Scratch this handsome but rigorously unromanticized Western--fully an hour passes without a shot being fired--and you find the classic Heinrich von Kleist book Michael Kohlhaas transposed to Wyoming Territory on the eve of statehood. The script--by the star-producer's dad, Dick Cusack--is sturdy and uncompromising, willing to engage the knotty ambiguities of embracing vigilantism even in a just cause. Badham's decision to treat the authorities (Scott Wilson, Jay O. Sanders, John Goodman) as period caricatures is regrettable. But John Cusack is solid as a figure of utterly matter-of-fact integrity. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - I love this movie
John Cusack was great. My favorite western by far. That was incredible. I watch this all the time. Loved it. Burn 'em!
Rating: - Review of The Jack Bull DVD
The Jack Bull is definately a gripping movie that shares the sentiments of receiving proper justice when wronged. I recommend this to all movie buffs.
Rating: - The Jack Bull
One of John Cusack's best best movies to date. It sheds light on true honor and the man's man way f life. He truly parallels the John wayne persona but with the soft as family man. A movie that you will watch more than five times.
Rating: - "Somebody steps on your rights, go after him. Never give up... never."
The Jack Bull was presented on HBO in April, 1999. Why it never played on the big screen is a mystery to me. It certainly rivals any western to have come out of Hollywood in quite some time although without the graphic violence, sex and profanity. True, there are some scenes laced with profanity but these are few and far between. The violence is under-stated and restrained.
The film's title refers to the Jack Russell breed of terrier which is said to never let go once it latches ... Read More
Rating:  - Entertaining authentic era western
Entertaining movie with an authentic realism to the settings and politics. A conflict of justice and injustice.
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