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Oscar-winning romantic western drama based on a short story by E Annie Proulx, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Wyoming, 1963: while employed to mind sheep on Brokeback Mountain, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist fall in love and embark hesitantly on a secretive relationship against a background of bigotry.
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A star rating of 5 out of 5.
Adam Smith
Ang Lee's epic love story about two cowboys is so much more than just a "gay" western; it's an exquisitely made and moving account of the corrosive nature of suppressed love. Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger are superb as the two men who, in the 1960s, find employment minding sheep on the slopes of the titular mountain. They fall for each other, at first just physically (their sex scenes are far from explicit and would be deemed coy if the couplings were heterosexual), but then much more deeply. Later, after both marry to satisfy convention, they resume their impossible affair via "fishing trips" during which few fish are actually caught. Lee avoids any proselytising or preaching, leaving the agony of the situation to speak for itself. And with its final, wrenching sequence, the film delivers what might be the nearest thing to an anguished sob yet committed to celluloid.
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rolenameEnnis Del MarHeath LedgerJack TwistJake GyllenhaalCassieLinda CardelliniLashawn MaloneAnna FarisLureen NewsomeAnne HathawayAlmaMichelle WilliamsJoe AguirreRandy QuaidAlma Jr, age 19Kate MaraLB NewsomeGraham BeckelMonroeScott Michael CampbellRandall MaloneDavid HarbourJack's motherRoberta MaxwellMexican prostituteRodrigo Prieto
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rolenameDirectorAng Lee
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Entertainment
Released on
2006-01-06
Languages
English | Spanish
Guidance
Violence, swearing and sex scenes.
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DVD and Blu-ray
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Colour
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