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Hi-Lo Country, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A Iand without boundaries. A passion without limits.
In the American west, just after WWlI, best friends Big Boy (Woody Harrelson) and Pete (BiIIy Crudup) return from the war to find half their hometown employed by corporate cattle-rancher Jim Ed Love (Sam EIliott). Defying Jim Ed and hanging onto mythic ideaIs of the west, Big Boy and Pete team up with an old-time rancher to raise cattle the cowboy way, and Iife in Hi-Lo, New Mexico becomes a volatiIe powder keg.
The fuse is Iit when Mona (Patricia Arquett), the wife of Jim Ed's foreman, begins a heated affair with Big Boy. Pete's past longings for Mona resurface with his discovery of the affair, and the bond of friendship becomes sorely tested. UltimateIy, Pete and Big Boy's friendship will be decided by the extent of their yearnings for the same woman, while Hi-Lo awaits the outcome of the expIosive run-ins between Jim Ed Love and the two proud cowboys.
Also starring Penelope Cruz, (To Rome With Love), Cole Hauser (Pitch BIack) and James Gammon (CoId Mountain). The Hi-Lo Country is a "wiIdly ambitious film that feels Iike an epic hybrid of Red River and The Last Picture Show (The New York Times)! |
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