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Release Date: 15 February, 2000 Retail Price: $24.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (16 total) |
Lonesome Dove Reviews
Wonderful
I don't expect anything more of a movie than to enjoy it and be entertained. I don't seek to psychoanalyze or offer up in-depth critique, it's only a movie. I either enjoy it or I don't. I enjoyed this immensely. I just can't find a single thing wrong with it and never tire of it. It's fantastic. It's an extraordinary story with an extraordinary cast.
outstanding, a dying breed!
I found this to be an outstanding miniseries and it's a shame that westerns like this are few and far between... Westerns are such a great format for showing our country and its heritage. Frankly, Lonesome Dove it is Americana.
The character interaction between Duvall and Jones makes this film the masterpiece that it is. As viewers, we are drawn into the lives of two lifelong fiends that are entering the twilight years of their lives. Former Rangers, they tamed the SW Border Territory together. Then disillusioned, spent their best years in the personal purgatory of Lonesome Dove...where their only source of amusement is getting drunk, getting laid by the town's only prostitute or stealing horses from across the border. Feats of valor forgotten, their self-respect diminished, they realize that life and opportunity have passed them bye. Both become determined to confront death one last time.
What occurs in this film is a keen examination of the love between two aging men, both agreeing to make a cattle drive to Montana and setup a ranch.....a perilous feat worth of recapturing their youth and self respect....but in reality, a journey from which they both hope not to return.
Many of us follow the same path, with friendships so old and close that one cannot easily discards one's obligation to the other. This is the common thread that rivets us to the screen .We are brought into the relationship of Call and McCrea to garner what the meaning of friendship is between two men who have known each other for so long. I cannot think of any film that has adequately exposed this quality among men so well except for Lonesome Dove
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