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Butcher's Crossing

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Butcher's Crossing

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Summary

An Ivy League drop-out travels to the Colorado wilderness, where he joins a team of buffalo hunters on a journey that puts his life and sanity at risk. Western, starring Nicolas Cage, Fred Hechinger and Xander Berkeley

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Terry Staunton

Nicolas Cage heads the cast of this rugged western as a veteran frontiersman who rides out into the Colorado wilderness of the 1870s in search of a mythical herd of buffalo. His posse includes a callow Harvard dropout (Fred Hechinger), who initially relishes the opportunity to commune with nature but must soon cope with the harsh realities of the unforgiving terrain and the toll it can take on an adventurer's sanity. Documentary maker Gabe Polsky's debut narrative feature stays largely faithful to the source material, a 1960 novel by John Edward Williams, although his examinations of masculinity, greed and bloodlust also have touchstones with western movies from later in that decade. Hechinger impresses as the fish out of water, but it's Cage's enigmatic steeliness that carries the film whenever the plot meanders in its attempt to deconstruct the mythology and morality of the Old West.

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5.6/10

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Cast

rolenameMillerNicolas CageWill AndrewsFred HechingerFred SchneiderJeremy BobbMcDonaldPaul RaciCharlie HogeXander BerkeleyFrancineRachel Keller

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Crew

rolenameDirectorGabe Polsky

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Languages

English

Guidance

Violence, swearing, a sex scene

Formats

Colour

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