Audiences overlooked Wild Bill at the cinema, but it's one of the better Westerns of the 1990s, featuring yet another terrific performance by Jeff Bridges, America's most underrated movie actor. As James Butler Hickock, he captures the sense of a man at the end of his career, one of the first media superstars who discovers that his legend is more burden than blessing. As he heads toward his final hand of poker in Deadwood, South Dakota, he flashes back to his younger days and the events that built his reputation, even as he copes with encroaching blindness caused by... syphilis. Walter Hill blends action and elegy, utilising a screenplay based both on Pete Dexter's novel Deadwood and Thomas Babe's play Fathers and Sons. Wild Bill features strong supporting performances by John Hurt (as a Hickock sidekick) and Ellen Barkin (as the tough, lusty Calamity Jane)--but the centrepiece is the sad, manly performance by Bridges, who more than measures up to the part. --Marshall Fine [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In the town of Deadwood South Dakota Wild Bill (Bridges) must face his most lethal enemy A mysterious stranger (David Arquette) has arrived announcing that he will not leave until Hickok is dead Wild Bill finds comfort in the arms of sexy Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin) but he is haunted by the memory of one woman he truly loved a longing that could ultimately bring about his downfall Actors Jeff Bridges Ellen Barkin John Hurt Diane Lane Keith Carradine David Arquette Christina Applegate Bruce Dern & James Remar Director Walter Hill Certificate 15 years and over Year 1995 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English ; French ; German ; Italian - Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Spanish (Dolby Surround) Subtitles Danish ; Dutch ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; French ; German for the hearing impaired ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour and 36 minutes (approx)
Jeff Bridges plays legendary gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok, facing a mysterious stranger (David Arquette) who is determined to see him dead. Bill finds some comfort in the arms of Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin), but is still haunted by a doomed love for another woman. As Hickok's unhappy past threatens to catch up with him, the deadly stranger closes in.
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