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Summary: Just a very good movie
Review: Stumbled across this movie on the satellite.Absorbing and well done. Above average. Worth a buy.
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Summary: Impressive actors, but the plot...
Review: The story is by turns implausible and cliched, but the acting is first rate. Tim Daly shines in a most unexpected way. His clean-cut preppy handsomeness is transformed here into a believable gunslinger masculinity. He's alternately menacing, courtly, vulnerable and strong. (And for a man in his mid-forties, he looks terrific). If you focus on the characters and let the story flow by, you'll enjoy this.
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Summary: Cliche but good
Review: This is the typical cattlemen versus sheep herders, Amish versus English, good versus evil type of movie, the age old battles. A vulnerable woman who just lost her husband, a curious little boy and an outlaw make of the core characters in this movie. The outlaw is not your typically outlaw though. Sure, he has no one to love, no one who loves him and nothing to lose, but he has a good heart. The movie kept my interest and in many ways was intriguing. The interaction of folks from totally different view points. The different perceptions. The tension between men interested in the same woman. The fact that folks are not always as they appear to be on the outside or what others perceive them to be. How caring for someone can take you way outside your normal realm. All these facets were presented in this movie in both subtle and not so subtle ways. I'm not sure really what it was about this movie that sucked me in. The loner? The protector? The connection of two souls? The love of a lone man for a child? The "us against them" attitude? How folks see me, sometimes, hard nosed on the outside but not the softy on the inside. The question, can love reform or change a man? Fighting with ones own past and inner demons? Whatever it was it really kept my interest. The sexual tension of what is left unsaid in this movie is well portrayed. The characters are explored deeply although the exploration is subtle. I found myself enjoying the movie a great deal and wondering why I had never heard of it before. If you like westerns don't miss this one.
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Summary: Long time fan of the book "The Outsider"
Review: This movie is based on the Penelope Williamson book with the same title. Since I truly loved the book and have reread it numerous times, it was hard not to compare it to the movie. The book rates higher than the movie for me, because it contains a more developed storyline and subplots. However, the movie is very riveting and stands strong on its own merits. Even though their names differ slightly, Tim Daly and Naomi Watts portrayed the main characters well. You can feel the moral struggle and their sexual tension. I can watch this movie again and again, but never as many times as I can reread the book.
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Summary: Long time fan of the book "The Outsider"
Review: This movie is based on the Penelope Williamson book with the same title. Since I truly loved the book and have reread it numerous times, it was hard not to compare it to the movie. The book rates higher than the movie for me, because it contains a more developed storyline and subplots. However, the movie is very riveting and stands strong on its own merits. Even though their names differ slightly, Tim Daly and Naomi Watts portrayed the main characters well. You can feel the moral struggle and their sexual tension. I can watch this movie again and again, but never as many times as I can reread the book.
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Summary: For western fans with a taste for romance
Review: Tim Daly and Naomi Watts turn a good story into a wonderful presentation with the help of talented direction and a strong supporting cast. It's the classic Western tale of Tim Daly, orphaned and abused as a child,seeking a way to redress the wrongs done to him by becoming someone feared and admired. And Naomi Watts,a woman of the Plain People and a widow, trying to run her small sheep ranch with the help of her son and also attempting to resist the ploys of a neighbor to remarry.
There, of course, is the cattle baron who desires the property owned by the Plain People throughout the valley and who will stop at nothing to gain the land for himself and his cattle company.
Mix everything together and you have a compelling movie with plenty of action, good characterizations, dialogue and plot.
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Summary: Tim Daly's acting is first rate!
Review: Tim Daly deserves an acting award for his superb performance. His face was just riveting to watch. This actor should be sought after for more romantic leading roles. He is aging beautifully. I ordered my first movie ever as a result of watching this film on Showtime. Bravo Tim Daly!
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Summary: Tim Daly's acting is first rate!
Review: Tim Daly deserves an acting award for his superb performance. His face was just riveting to watch. This actor should be sought after for more romantic leading roles. He is aging beautifully. I ordered my first movie ever as a result of watching this film on Showtime. Bravo Tim Daly!
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Summary: Tim Daly's Best Work Yet
Review: Very intense story about a plain widow women (Naomi Watts) and her young boy living in a religious community who takes pity on a wounded gun slinger (Tim Daly). She nurses him back to health only to fall in forbidden love with him and he with her. However, he knows he could never have her. Meanwhile, the men who killed her husband are after her land. Conflict between violence and forbidden love tears her family apart and she must make a decision that could cost her her life. This is a good, good story, one I've watched over and over again.
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Summary: a too ordinary and too cliched slow motion picture
Review: well, showtime did another lukewarm deadbeat movie again. this movie is so cliched and so bored, by watching it, i suddenly found myself became a prophet or fore-seer with a 10 times faster speed than the movie itself. this movie's script was so obviously digged out of those cheap western dime novel junks, or was found from the garbage can outside of the house of a still struggling western genre writer, because even the writer himself would not tolerate this so commonly and so shallow story after he wrote it. as to the performance of all the players in this movie, well, how could it be great if you got all the kung-fu family members in it?
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