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6.6/10   329 votes
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Writers (WGA):
Elmer Kelton (book)
Tommy Lee Jones (teleplay) ...
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Release Date:
5 March 1995 (USA) more
Plot:
An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family. | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations more
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(2 articles)
Western Writer Kelton Dead
 (From WENN. 24 August 2009, 5:06 AM, PDT)

Tommy Lee Jones Marries
 (From WENN. 22 March 2001)

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tommy Lee Jones ... Hewey Calloway

Terry Kinney ... Walter Calloway

Frances McDormand ... Eve Calloway

Sam Shepard ... Tarnell

Sissy Spacek ... Spring Renfro
Wilford Brimley ... C.C. Tarpley
Walter Olkewicz ... Fat Gervin

Matt Damon ... Cotton Calloway

Blayne Weaver ... Tommy Calloway

Bruce McGill ... City Marshall
Larry Mahan ... Blue Hannigan
Richard Jones ... Alvin Lawdermilk
Karen Jones ... Cora Lawdermilk
Park Overall ... Florence
Laura Poe ... Betsey
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130 min | Argentina:120 min
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C.C. Tarpley: All you got is a brown horse past his prime, an old saddle, and *maybe* twenty dollars. Now, that ain't much to show for all them years, is it?
Hewey Calloway: I went north one time into Canada and seen the glaciers. You ever see a glacier, C.C.?
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11 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Well worth watching, 17 May 2002
9/10
Author: jackjack-2 from United States

Perhaps I liked this movie because it reminded me very much of my father and mother. My father was an itinerent cowboy and a championship rodeo rider in the early part of the 20th Century just like the role Tommy Lee Jones played as Hewey Callaway. And he had a side kick much like Sam Shepard's character Tarnell. My father met a lady like Sissy Spacek when he was 31 and married her. Tarnell also got married but he was killed in a rodeo two years later and my father gave up rodeo riding.

Life was very much like in the movie in those days. You found people that would go out of their way to help others and the bankers in the movie were typical of bankers in those days, mean as hell.

The acting in the movie was excellent. Everyone in the movie played roles that were very typical in those days and they did a good job of it. The only gripe I have with the movie is that the ending was unreal. I won't give it away but I have known many cowboys but I never knew one that didn't want to settle down.

One of the funniest scenes in the movie was when the outhouse was knocked down with the grandmother in it. That was a common prank in those days, to knock over an outhouse. The grandmother was a pistol. I knew old women just like her.

The author either had some experience or he really did a great job of research because the story (except for the ending) accurately depicted conditions in those days.

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