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Limited Release: Apr 20, 2001; Rated: R; Length: 120 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Historical, Western; With: Wes Bentley, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Mullan and Sarah Polley
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
Based on The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, Michael Winterbottom's measured, overdetermined historical drama has a lot on its mind -- maybe too much. It's a Western set in the snow, a 19th-century English novel transported to the American gold rush, and a morality tale in which every character not only suffers and learns, but symbolizes, too. Peter Mullan stars as a prospector who pays a terrible price to strike it rich; Sarah Polley plays his grown daughter; Wes Bentley is a forward-looking railroad surveyor. B-
Posted May 04, 2001
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