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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792849988
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0792849981
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: December 26, 2001
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 12029
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge has been transplanted to the edge of the American frontier in this vivid drama that didn't receive the theatrical exposure it deserved. Although top young actors adorn the movie's ads, the central character--Daniel Dillon, a man who runs the gold rush town of Kingdom Come--is played by little-known Peter Mullen. In the dead of winter in 1849, three people arrive in town, changing irrevocably Dillon's life. One is Donald Dalglish (Wes Bentley), the clear-thinking leader of a railroad prospect crew who will determine where the railroad line--and a new line of wealth--will be built. The others are a mother and daughter (Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley) who have a past connection to Dillon and the knowledge of how he became rich. As events unfold--in pure Hardy fashion--Dillon finds himself facing a crossroads, with one path leading to redemption. The cast is uniformly brilliant, but special praise must go to Mullen, who carries the film's dramatic weight, and to Bentley, who is so composed in a role completely dissimilar to his breakthrough work in American Beauty. Director Michael Winterbottom (who adapted another Hardy piece with his film Jude) and cinematographer Alwin H. Kuchler have fashioned their film after Robert Altman's landmark McCabe and Mrs. Miller in the natural, earthy feel of a frontier town. The film opened in 2000 and deservedly appeared on a few top 10 lists, then was rereleased the following year. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "They were like kings"
This is superior film making. The acting is excellent, the setting is meticulously authentic, the story is profound on a Biblical level. Michael Nyman's music is poignant. There is one scene when Milla Jovovich sings a song which alone makes the film worth watching. This is not Clint Eastwood, thank God. It doesn't have a gun fight for twenty minutes through the town with men getting shot and falling into the horses' water troughs. It is not burdened with the overbearing presence of a major star. ... Read More
Rating: - Brrrrrrrrr!
Brings a new meaning to a 'chilling' tale.
Quite the mixed opinions here. I don't think I've ever seen a review with marks all over the scale like this before. Yeah, the relocation of a fully furnished 2-story home through a mountainside befuddled me also. With that aside, my wife and I thought this was an okay movie.
***1/2
Rating: - A STORY OF PIONEERS
A real discovery. A western set in the snowy town of Kingdom Come in the Sierra Nevada. Indispensable.
Rating:  - Needs subtitles
I got this DVD because of the great reviewers comments on the cover. My problem was that I could not understand what many of the actors were saying. There were no English subtitles available so I tried French, which I do read a little. This kept me so busy, translating, though, that I gave up after about 40 minutes.
I think that if it had looked more interesting I might have kept at it, but it didn't. The director was going for "bleak" it seems and he got it. Sarah Polley who seemed ... Read More
Rating: - Nice idea, terrible execution...
I had at least decent hopes for this film considering Milla Jovovich is in it. I love her albums and her singing in this movie is wonderful. Unfortunately her performance can't even help the lackluster performances of the other actors and the lack of atmosphere in the movie. This was a great idea but just so poorly executed. I was so bored I couldn't even finish watching it. The plot has some interesting twists and turns and I think that had there been some changes in the cast and the director this ... Read More
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