Brokeback Mountain R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 4, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Focus Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams & Anne Hathaway | |
Performer: | Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris & David Harbour | |
Directed by | Ang Lee | |
Edited by | Geraldine Peroni & Dylan Tichenor | |
Screenwriting by | Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana | |
Original story by | Annie Proulx | |
Composition by | Gustavo Santaolalla | |
Produced by | Diana Ossana & James Schamus | |
Director of Photography: | Rodrigo Prieto |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2005 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Diana Ossana & Larry McMurtry
Academy Awards 2005 -
Best Director: Ang Lee
Academy Awards 2005 -
Best Original Score: Gustavo Santaolalla
Entertainment Reviews:
Mr. Gyllenhaal's Jack is a mercurial mix of plain, poetic and practical. Mr. Ledger's Ennis is touchingly bleak, and self-contained...
Wall Street Journal
[T]he screenplay is a model of sensitive adaptation....The screenwriters' most significant contribution is their investment in well-defined, plausible female characters.
Sight and Sound
[I]t's a nuanced and complex study of desire, loneliness and the ambiguities swirling beneath the accepted codes of rural life. And, as such, one of the finest movies of the year.
Uncut
An important and original romance that really and finally portrays the homosexual romance as two humans falling in love and never plays it for clichés...
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Cinema Crazed
Ledger hits all the right notes as Ennis, delivering a quiet performance filled with heartache and sorrow.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Rating: A --
The approach is dry as the Wyoming landscape, and while it occasionally threatens to pull the film out of shape, it's still the right one for these men.
AV Club
Rating: 4/4 --
The passion created here...makes no restrictions on who can understand and appreciate it. This is as fine a love story as there is. [May 10, 2018]
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Dr. Filmlove's Film Reviews and Ratings
Product Description:
Based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author E. Annie Proulx, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is the tragic and moving story of two cowboys who unexpectedly fall in love while working together one summer in 1963. When the film begins, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch-hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) are strangers meeting for the first time. As the more outgoing one, it is Jack who must initiate a friendship with Ennis, a man so tight-lipped and self-consciously macho he refuses all facial expression. From this strained beginning, Jack and Ennis gradually begin to bond on cold, lonely nights over a fire in the mountains of Signal, Wyoming. One particularly chilly evening, Jack invites Ennis into his tent, where a sudden awkward embrace sends their relationship in a new direction. Though each man stubbornly defends his heterosexuality, the spark between them cannot help but grow, with that initial summer on Brokeback Mountain becoming their reference point for happiness during the rest of their lives.
Spanning 20 years, the film moves at an impressively slow pace that really captures the detailed and unhurried style of Proulx's story. Seeing each other a few times a year at best, Ennis and Jack spend the rest of their time halfheartedly living up to society's expectations by marrying and having kids. When the lovers do meet, there is a sense of love so palpable and frustrating it often manifests itself in physical violence. Gyllenhaal shines as the film's hopeful light, and Ledger gives a powerful performance as the emotionally blocked Ennis. Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee captures the natural beauty of Wyoming and Texas with camerawork that, while beautiful, never feels imposing. Gustavo Santaolalla's simple yet haunting score helps to complete a beautiful portrait of wasted chances and regret.
Spanning 20 years, the film moves at an impressively slow pace that really captures the detailed and unhurried style of Proulx's story. Seeing each other a few times a year at best, Ennis and Jack spend the rest of their time halfheartedly living up to society's expectations by marrying and having kids. When the lovers do meet, there is a sense of love so palpable and frustrating it often manifests itself in physical violence. Gyllenhaal shines as the film's hopeful light, and Ledger gives a powerful performance as the emotionally blocked Ennis. Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee captures the natural beauty of Wyoming and Texas with camerawork that, while beautiful, never feels imposing. Gustavo Santaolalla's simple yet haunting score helps to complete a beautiful portrait of wasted chances and regret.
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- UPC: 025192631528
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