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OPEN RANGE

Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Abraham Benrubi, Robert Duvall, Michael Gambon

Directed by: Kevin Costner
Written by: Craig Storper Lauran Paine
Produced by: Kevin Costner, David Valdes, Craig Storper
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US: 15 AUGUST 2003
UK: 19 MARCH 2004

Following the day-to-day encounters of four cattle herders who roam the countryside without owning a particular piece of land, or "freegrazers" (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.

Open Range is generating fantastic buzz for Costner. He's been out of fashion for some years now. Which is odd as he is a remarkably good screen actor. Duval is never less that highly watchable too. It sounds a bit like Sam Pekinpah's classic elegiac western from 1962, 'Ride The High Country' starring Joel McRea and Randolph Scott.