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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780642805
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0780642805
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 5995
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: January 17, 2003
Editorial Review:
Description:
Times change, Monte Walsh doesn't. For him, being a cowboy isn't a job, it's a life. And that's something the fenced-in, corporate-bean-counting ways of the onrushing 20th century must never alter. Tom Selleck plays Monte, struggling to continue the life he knows while seeing the new era nudge the cowboy way toward history's dustbin. Lonesome Dove Emmy winner Simon Wincer directs this Western featuring a superb supporting cast and based on a novel by the author of Shane.
Amazon.com:
Tom Selleck is at his iconic best in this made-for-cable remake of Monte Walsh, a poignant Western about the passing of an American age and the people attached to it. Selleck plays the title character, a career cowboy whose rhythms are aligned with the seasons and the annual herding of cattle from Wyoming to Texas. Faithful to his ways, loyal to his best friend (Keith Carradine), and satisfied with his part-time romance with an ailing, aging saloon girl (Isabella Rosselini), Walsh is happy until his 1890s world rapidly unravels. Eastern corporations are buying up land and shutting down ranches; trains are shuttling livestock faster than an army of cowhands. Walsh can't accommodate the future, and those closest to him are moving on. Director Simon Wincer (Lonesome Dove) masterfully balances the epic and elegaic, Selleck is perfect as a fading footnote to history, and Monte Walsh becomes a universal tale of loss and integrity. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Best dang western actor, I think
Don't know why I'm asked to review this movie by Amazon...computers don't make mistakes right? But I recently found a Tom Selleck 3 movie set at Walmart that had the Monte Walsh movie. I'd seen the old Lee Marvin version a few times but I thought Tom was excellent in this great story.
I highly recommend Tom Selleck as a Western star. He's super and to me has only two equals -- Tom Berenger and Sam Elliot.
Oh yes, by the way, all the actors were great in this and I was very impressed by ... Read More
Rating: - Modern Westerns
Amazon was very good on delivery and Monte Walsh starring Tom Selleck was wonderful. There has never been a bad movie with Tom Selleck in it!
Rating: - Selleck is wonderful in this timeless movie
You don't have to love westerns to appreciate Monte Walsh. There's times where we all might feel a little overwhelmed with modern changes and Selleck's character is no different.
He holds true to himself and his cowboy "code" that so many others lose along the way.
It's a beautiful film with Monte experiencing the highs and lows we all go through in life,; hard work, good times, celebration and loss. All this while the world around him changes. I personally think this is one of the most ... Read More
Rating: - Monte Walsh
Great Movie, great price, great time on arrivel, will buy again from great vendor.
Thank-you very much.
JM
Rating: - Monte Walsh
Monte Walsh video is an excellant movie for my files. IT's good humor and characterization of the last cowboy....as we will all go someday.
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