Open Range
Release Date: Aug 15, 2003 - Wide Release
Distributor: Touchstone Pictures
Film Genre: Drama, Action, Western
Country: United States
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Following the day-to-day encounters of four "freegrazers" (cattle herders who roam the countryside, not owning a particular piece of land) (Costner, Duvall, Luna, Benrubi) living in the final years of the Wild West, this film tells the story of how they eventually team up to rid a burgeoning remote town, Harmonville, from the machinations of a ruthlessly evil rancher, Baxter (Gambon), who forms a sort of "outlaw state" where he makes the laws and rules, and enforces them using scare tactics and brute force. (Costner and Duvall play "cattle rustlers with hearts of gold"; Annette Bening plays Costner's "romantic interest", a nurse; Benrubi plays a "gentle giant of a man"; Luna plays a "teen with a troubled past").
TRIVIA
Costner's directorial debut was with the 1990 film, Dances with Wolves.