Brokeback Mountain (Blu-ray) R
Love is a force of nature
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams & Anne Hathaway | |
Performer: | Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris & David Harbour | |
Directed by | Ang Lee | |
Edited by | Geraldine Peroni & Dylan Tichenor | |
Screenwriting by | Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana | |
Original story by | Annie Proulx | |
Composition by | Gustavo Santaolalla | |
Produced by | Diana Ossana & James Schamus | |
Director of Photography: | Rodrigo Prieto |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2005 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Diana Ossana & Larry McMurtry
Academy Awards 2005 -
Best Director: Ang Lee
Academy Awards 2005 -
Best Original Score: Gustavo Santaolalla
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A+ --
Brokeback Mountain is ultimately about the paralysis of regret and how it fractures the lives of not just those afflicted by it, but everyone else around them.
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Cinemalogue
Rating: 4/5 --
A romantic western with a twist, Brokeback Mountain is a haunting and well acted exploration of a forbidden and secretive love affair between two cowboys.
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Matt's Movie Reviews
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
4 stars out of 5 -- Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal...
Rolling Stone
Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- [A] quietly revolutionary weeper...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/4 --
Lee has crafted a film that flouts stereotypes and becomes one of the most sincere, most deeply felt love stories in years.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
The lonesome chill that seeps through Ang Lee's epic western, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is as bone deep as the movie's heartbreaking story...
New York Times
Product Description:
Based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author E. Annie Proulx, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is the tragic and moving story of two cowboys who unexpectedly fall in love while working together one summer in 1963. When the film begins, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch-hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) are strangers meeting for the first time. As the more outgoing one, it is Jack who must initiate a friendship with Ennis, a man so tight-lipped and self-consciously macho he refuses all facial expression. From this strained beginning, Jack and Ennis gradually begin to bond on cold, lonely nights over a fire in the mountains of Signal, Wyoming. One particularly chilly evening, Jack invites Ennis into his tent, where a sudden awkward embrace sends their relationship in a new direction. Though each man stubbornly defends his heterosexuality, the spark between them cannot help but grow, with that initial summer on Brokeback Mountain becoming their reference point for happiness during the rest of their lives.
Spanning 20 years, the film moves at an impressively slow pace that really captures the detailed and unhurried style of Proulx's story. Seeing each other a few times a year at best, Ennis and Jack spend the rest of their time halfheartedly living up to society's expectations by marrying and having kids. When the lovers do meet, there is a sense of love so palpable and frustrating it often manifests itself in physical violence. Gyllenhaal shines as the film's hopeful light, and Ledger gives a powerful performance as the emotionally blocked Ennis. Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee captures the natural beauty of Wyoming and Texas with camerawork that, while beautiful, never feels imposing. Gustavo Santaolalla's simple yet haunting score helps to complete a beautiful portrait of wasted chances and regret.
Spanning 20 years, the film moves at an impressively slow pace that really captures the detailed and unhurried style of Proulx's story. Seeing each other a few times a year at best, Ennis and Jack spend the rest of their time halfheartedly living up to society's expectations by marrying and having kids. When the lovers do meet, there is a sense of love so palpable and frustrating it often manifests itself in physical violence. Gyllenhaal shines as the film's hopeful light, and Ledger gives a powerful performance as the emotionally blocked Ennis. Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee captures the natural beauty of Wyoming and Texas with camerawork that, while beautiful, never feels imposing. Gustavo Santaolalla's simple yet haunting score helps to complete a beautiful portrait of wasted chances and regret.
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