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LEDGER (LEFT) AND GYLLENHAAL
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: Kimberley French

Jack-of-all-genres director Ang Lee (The Hulk, Sense and Sensibility) heads west with this tender tale — based on the Annie Proulx short story — about two cowboys (Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) from Texas and Wyoming who knock spurs and fall in love. Now, if only their wives could just be happy for them...

(For a full preview of December films, check out Entertainment Weekly's Holiday Movies issue, out in November 2005.)