Starring: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Robert Urich Directed By: Simon Wincer Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC Label: Lions Gate Number of Items: 2 Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 30, 2002 Running Time: 360 minutes Theatrical Release Date: February 05, 1989
Amazon.com essential video: Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, aging cowboys and former Texas rangers and who organize a 2,500 mile cattle drive for one last great adventure in this excellent 1989 miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel. The best friends, who steal the herd from a gang of Mexican cattle rustlers, drive their herd from Texas to Montana, battling horse thieves, angry Indian tribes, and a renegade half-breed killer named Blue Duck (Frederic Forrest) on a mission of revenge. The excellent cast also includes Robert Urich as cardsharp and former Ranger Jake Spoon, Anjelica Huston as McCrae's old flame Clara Allen, Danny Glover, Ricky Schroder, Diane Lane, Chris Cooper, D.B. Sweeney, Steve Buscemi, and even a small role for author Larry McMurtry. Australian director Simon Wincer shows a tremendous capacity for balancing sweeping drama and intimacy against the gorgeous landscape of the American Southwest, giving a grandly epic feel to the film despite its small-screen target and limited budget, and for forging memorable characters of even the smallest supporting parts. The heart of the drama belongs to McCrae and Call, memorably etched by Duvall and Jones as the last of the range romantics. In the age of revisionist Westerns, this excellent cattle-drive drama nicely maintains an old-fashioned feeling while still showing the dark side of the American West. Winner of seven Emmy Awards and responsible for two miniseries sequels (Return to Lonesome Dove and Dead Man's Walk) and a TV series. --Sean Axmaker
Product Description: Epic western about two former Texas rangers who leave the south Texas town of Lonesome Dove on a cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. Genre: Westerns Rating: NR Release Date: 21-OCT-2003 Media Type: DVD
Lonesome Dove. This is an exellent western movie I wish I'd watched it when it was first released.Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones are just superb.The other actors are also very good.The departure of Duvall I did not like but I guess the director Simon Wincer knew what he was doing. Yes I will watch it again.
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Clunky and cartoonish I haven't read the book, but I bought this on the strength of other reviewers. And what a disappointment. I'm a big fan of westerns, going back to the Lone Ranger - and that's pretty much what this goes back to. Plotwise, it's episodic and simplistic, full of cornball events and ridiculous coincidences. The direction is boring and basic, the photography and scenery repetitious and forgetable. Everyone keeps running into everyone else on the trail to Montana, with dramatic timing that makes the whole yarn laughable. Apart from Duvall, who's superb, the characters are thin and cliched, no more than flesh and blood cartoons. By halfway through the second episode, I couldn't care less, and after Angelica Houston made her miscast entrance, the whole thing became unbearably sentimental, sluggish and silly. This is not an epic masterpiece by any stretch. The Godfather is an epic masterpiece. Or Star Wars, for that matter. This is a staid western ultra-lite. I shudder to think what the subsequent DVDs are like if, as most reviewers concur, they exhibit diminishing returns.
Excellent Adventure I have read the book and watched the movie multiple times and it is still as exciting as the first time. Wonderful story and superb acting. What a great ride!!
FANTASTIC GOT THE CD AND THE DVD, THEY WERE GREAT! DEFINATELY WILL BUY FROM HERE AGAIN.
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