Open Range
Open Range is a 2003 American revisionist Western film directed and co-produced by Kevin Costner, written by Craig Storper and based on the novel The Open Range Men by Lauran Paine. It stars Robert Duvall and Costner, with Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, and Michael Jeter appearing in supporting roles. It presents a range war that happens when free-grazing herder "Boss" Spearman (Duvall) and his cowboys enter the Montana territory of cattle baron Denton Baxter (Gambon).
Plot
In Montana in 1882, "Boss" Spearman is a seasoned open range cattleman, who with hired hands Charley Waite, Mose, and Button, is driving a herd cross-country. Charley is a former Union soldier who served in a "special squad" during the Civil War and feels immense guilt over his past as a killer of both enemy soldiers and civilians.
More details
| author | Craig Storper |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Montana |
| director | Kevin Costner |
| editor | Miklos Wright |
| genre | western |
| keywords | american civil war bury bushwhacker candy bar chloroform civil war drive enemy soldier flashback to his war days gun battle hired gun injured irish irish immigrant irish people jail kill livery stable masked rider open range outnumber sale scout serve special squad suffer tea set trap union soldier wound |
| musicBy | Michael Kamen |
| producer | David Valdes Jake Eberts Kevin Costner |
| productionCompany | Beacon Communications Tig Productions Touchstone Pictures |
| publisher | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| recordedAt | Alberta |