Synopsis
The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the oldest of them, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers and execute the greatest train robbery in American history five years later.
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Cast
- Matthew McConaugheyWillis Newton
- Skeet UlrichJoe Newton
- Ethan HawkeJess Newton
- Vincent D'OnofrioDock Newton
- Dwight YoakamBrentwood Glasscock
- Gail CronauerMia Newton
- Julianna MarguliesLouise Brown
- Jena KaramOrphan Singer
- Casey McAuliffeOrphan Singer
- Regina Mae MatthewsOrphan Fiddler
Recommandations
- 78
Austin Chronicle
What The Newton Boys lacks in dramatic definition, it more than compensates for with its underlying intelligence and visual luster. - 75
ReelViews
A fast-paced, entertaining motion picture that replaces gritty tension with a lightly-dramatic character interaction that occasionally borders on straight comedy. - 70
Film Threat
Linklater reaches for the sky with this film, but the result is mixed. - 70
The New York Times
If Mr. Linklater is not entirely at ease with action sequences (or with the obligatory having-fun montage once the brothers become successful), he still makes this (after ''Before Sunrise'' and ''Suburbia'') another admirable directorial stretch. - 60
Variety
An extremely handsome production that meticulously evokes the 1920s, and a likable male-dominated cast, headed by Matthew McConaughey in his best screen performance to date, only partially compensate for a story that's too diffuse and lacks a discernible point of view that would make it dramatically engaging. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The film chronicles their criminal career in a low-key, meandering way; we're hanging out with them more than we're being told a story. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
On the flimsy wings of this familiar fairy tale, Linklater tries to fly himself a movie, dressing up the quartet (and the strapping he-men cast to portray them) in the audience-friendly vestments of picaresque charm. - 50
L.A. Weekly
In his true-life film about four brothers who robbed banks out West during the late teens and early '20s, Richard Linklater seems to achieve the impossible: He makes Ethan Hawke bearable.
