Brokeback Mountain

3.50
    Brokeback Mountain
    2005

    Synopsis

    Rodeo cowboy Jack and ranch hand Ennis are hired as sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, they spark a physical relationship. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, they keep up their tortured, sporadic love affair for 20 years.

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    Cast

    • Heath LedgerEnnis Del Mar
    • Jake GyllenhaalJack Twist
    • Michelle WilliamsAlma Beers
    • Anne HathawayLureen Newsome
    • Randy QuaidJoe Aguirre
    • Linda CardelliniCassie Cartwright
    • Anna FarisLashawn Malone
    • David HarbourRandall Malone
    • Roberta MaxwellMrs. Twist
    • Kate MaraAlma Del Mar Jr. (age 19)

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Entertainment Weekly

      Brokeback Mountain is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story.
    • 100

      Rolling Stone

      Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable Brokeback Mountain hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
    • 100

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Anne Proulx's 1997 short story in the New Yorker has been masterfully expanded by screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana to provide director Lee with his best movie since "Sense and Sensibility" in 1995.
    • 90

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      The remarkable thing director Ang Lee has done is to have made a film that remains firmly in the Western genre while never retreating from its portrayal of a tragic love story.
    • 90

      The New Yorker

      This slow and stoic movie, hailed as a gay Western, feels neither gay nor especially Western: it is a study of love under siege.
    • 80

      Variety

      This ostensible gay Western is marked by a heightened degree of sensitivity and tact, as well as an outstanding performance from Heath Ledger.
    • 80

      The A.V. Club

      It allows Lee to draw out a theme that's been present in his films from the start: the notion that repressed passion does no one any good. In Brokeback Mountain, it turns vibrant men ghostly.
    • 70

      Time

      For all its brave beginnings and real achievements--its assault on western mythology, its discovery of a subversive sexual honesty in an unexpected locale--Brokeback Mountain finally fails to fully engage our emotions.

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