Heaven's Gate
Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, and Joseph Cotten, and loosely based on the Johnson County War. It revolves around a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s.
Plot
In 1870, two young men, Jim Averill and Billy Irvine, graduate from Harvard College. The Reverend Doctor speaks to the graduates on the association of "the cultivated mind with the uncultivated" and the importance of education. Irvine, the class orator, follows this with his opposing, irreverent views. A celebration is then held, after which the male students serenade the women present, including Averill's girlfriend.
Awards
Cast
- Anna Thomson
- Brad Dourif
- Caroline Kava
- Christopher Walken
- David Mansfield
- David S. Cass, Sr.
- Geoffrey Lewis
- Isabelle Huppert
- Jack Conley
- Jeff Bridges
- Jim Knobeloch
- John Hurt
- Joseph Cotten
- Judi Trott
- Kris Kristofferson
- Mickey Rourke
- Nicholas Woodeson
- Norbert Weisser
- Paul D'Amato
- Paul Koslo
- Richard Masur
- Robin Bartlett
- Ronnie Hawkins
- Sam Peckinpah
- Sam Waterston
- Terry O'Quinn
- Tom Noonan
- Willem Dafoe