Rotten
The audience is simply left with the task of fitting together the allegory's easy pieces.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
The Claim
Everything has a price.
2000 · 2h · R
Drama, Romance, Western
Directed by
Michael Winterbottom
Overview
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Director and cast
- Michael Winterbottom Director
- Peter Mullan as Daniel Dillon
- Milla Jovovich as Lucia
- Wes Bentley as Donald Dalglish
- Nastassja Kinski as Elena Burn
- Sarah Polley as Hope Burn
- Shirley Henderson as Annie
- Julian Richings as Francis Bellanger
- Sean McGinley as Sweetley
- Tom McCamus as Burn
- Duncan Frasier as Crocker
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
62%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Easily the most compelling Western to hit our screens since Unforgiven.
Paul Tatara, CNN.com
Fresh
A mournful, poetic, epic movie that lodges in the memory.
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle
Fresh
Takes place against a frigid canvas gorgeously captured by Alwin Kuchler.
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News
Fresh
A rich emotional experience, ranging in degree from fire to ice.
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
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