Open Range

This story of the Old West works on many fronts. It blends the expected violence with pathos, romance, or even comedy. This film opens with 4 cow palms (Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall), Charley Waite (Kevin Costner), Mose Harrison (Abraham Benrubi), the gentle, boy-like cook; and Button (Diego Luna), a sixteen-year-old Mexican child that has been taken in by the older cowboys) pushing a farm animals herd. After a hard rain, Boss determines that Mose desires to head again to a town they handed and get more supplies. When he fails to return, the two older guys move after him. They discover he has been beaten by a local rancher’s men after which arrested for starting the combat. Going to the jail, they confront the corrupt Sheriff Poole (James Russo) and rancher Denton Baxter (Sir Michael Gambon), who has a stranglehold on the town and a dislike for open range cattlemen. Mose is launched and taken to Doc Barlow (Dean McDermott), wherein the men also meet the doc’s sister Sue (Annette Bening), who they to begin with mistake for his spouse. Romance blooms. The men head lower back to the range, however are confronted with the aid of hooded riders and disaster that sends them on a course of revenge. Charley’s records as a former gunfighter slowly resurfaces as he plans out the approaching shoot-out. tt0316356