An old gunslinger (Clint Eastwood), his ex-partner (Morgan Freeman) and a quick-draw kid go bounty hunting... (Learn more)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman (View All)
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Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face, Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by fierce Strawberry Alice (Frances Fisher), take justice into their own hands and put a $1000 bounty on the lives of the perpetrators. Notorious outlaw-turned-hog farmer William Munny (Eastwood) is sought out by neophyte gunslinger the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) to go with him to Big Whiskey and collect the bounty. While Munny insists, "I ain't like that no more," he needs the bounty money for his children, and the two men convince Munny's clean-living comrade Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) to join them in righting a wrong done to a woman. Little Bill (Oscar-winner Gene Hackman), however, has no intention of letting any bounty hunters impinge on his iron-clad authority. When pompous gunman English Bob (Richard Harris) arrives in Big Whiskey with pulp biographer W.W. Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek) in tow, Little Bill beats Bob senseless and promises to tell Beauchamp the real story about violent frontier life and justice. But when Munny, the true unwritten legend, comes to town, everyone soon learns a harsh lesson about the price of vindictive bloodshed and the malleability of ideas like "justice." "I don't deserve this," pleads Little Bill. "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it," growls Munny, simultaneously summing up the insanity of western violence and the legacy of Eastwood's Man With No Name. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
8/7/92
MPAA Rating
Rated R
Running Time
130 mins.
Locations
- Brooks, Alberta, Canada
- Drumheller, Alberta, Canada
- Longview, Alberta, Canada
- Sonora, California, USA
- Stettler, Alberta, Canada
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$100,003,672
Awards
- Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1992 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1992 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture - Drama award at the 1992 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Screenplay award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1991 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor - Runner-up award at the 1992 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a David Lean Award award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the 100 Greatest American Movies award at the 1998 American Film Institute [Festival/Awar Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Screenplay award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Editing award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1991 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1992 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1991 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1992 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1992 Directors Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1992 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 1992 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 1992 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Sound award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion award at the 1992 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Art Direction award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1991 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
Distributor
- Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group
- Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
- Warner Brothers
