Heaven's Gate 1980

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 149 min

genre: western

theme: epic

director: Michael Cimino

Score: 5 / 10

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

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director

Cast

More details

author	Michael Cimino
award	Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
contentLocation	Wyoming
director	Michael Cimino
editor	Gerald Greenberg Lisa Fruchtman Tom Rolf William Reynolds
genre	western
keywords	ambush army captain baseball board meeting burning car captain cattle baron ella watson frank canton frank m. canton gather harvard college hired gun kill marshal meet murder nate champion only way pass quebec rhode island roller rink roller skating rink rustle shoot skate sleep smoke station master steal surround suspect trying to escape u.s. army wyoming stock growers association
musicBy	David Mansfield
nomination	Academy Award for Best Production Design Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Musical Score Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay
producer	Joann Carelli
productionCompany	Partisan Productions
publisher	United Artists
recordedAt	Pinewood Studios
theme	epic race and ethnicity transport