Fresh
Neville never really convinces us that the beauty of the Silk Road's performances can change the world, but he does show that the music has changed the world of the performers themselves.
Robert Harris, Globe and Mail
Overview
Adapted freely from the classic novella 'The Mysterious Stranger' by Mark Twain; Day of the Stranger revives the tradition of the acid western of the 1970's. Caine Farrowood is a bounty hunter who works under the control of ruthless kingpin Loomweather. One day a bounty retrieval goes awry and Caine is left for dead. Just when he thinks his life is over he mysteriously awakens back home to the comforts of his wife Christina. Baffled and confused by how he got home Caine insists on finding answers, but before long he is enlisted in the retrieval of another bounty. This one is huge and may cost Caine not his life, but his sanity when he finds himself pitted against somebody who may very well be the fallen angel himself.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
Ma's project and Neville's film celebrate the joy that can be achieved when people put aside their regional differences to create something joyous.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
Commendable intentions be damned; one can't hear the music for the self-applauding.
Scott Marks, San Diego Reader
Fresh
What drives the narrative is the musicians' mutual desire to forge meaningful connections across cultures, an affirmative answer to Leonard Bernstein's question of whether music can truly serve as a "universal language."
Leah Pickett, Chicago Reader
Fresh
"Strangers" offers an inspiring look at creative people from very different walks of life who nonetheless communicate beautifully with one another. They don't need to speak a common language: Their dazzling music says it all.
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post
More films
Gunless (2010)
Action · Comedy · Drama · Western · N/A
American gunslinger Sean Rafferty—aka The Montana Kid—is unable to find someone to duel in a Canadian town where no one understands the brutal code of the American Wild West.
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Director
- William Phillips
- Cast
- Paul Gross, Sienna Guillory, Tyler Mane
IMDb
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes
40%
Jubal (1956)
Drama · Western · Approved
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Director
- Delmer Daves
- Cast
- Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger
IMDb
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Tennessee's Partner (1955)
Western · N/A
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ('My friends call me Cowpoke'), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there's a mys...
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Director
- Allan Dwan
- Cast
- John Payne, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming
IMDb
6.6
The Texas Rangers (1951)
Western · APPROVED
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Director
- Phil Karlson
- Cast
- George Montgomery, Gale Storm, Jerome Courtland
IMDb
6.2
L'Atalante (1934)
Comedy · Drama · Romance · Not Rated
Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'Atalante along with the captain's first mate and a cabin boy.
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Director
- Jean Vigo
- Cast
- Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté
IMDb
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Comments
Talk about the film with other members