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Tombstone 1993
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This Western has become a modest cult favorite since its release in 1993, when the film was met with mixed reviews but the performances of Kurt Russell (as Wyatt Earp) and especially Val Kilmer, for his memorably eccentric performance as the dying gunslinger Doc Holliday, garnered high praise. The movie opens with Wyatt Earp trying to put his violent past behind him, living happily in Tombstone with his brothers and the woman (Dana Delany) who puts his soul at ease. But a murderous gang called the Cowboys has burst on the scene, and Earp can't keep his gun belt off any longer. The plot sounds routine, and in many ways it is, but Western...
| Release Date: | December 24th, 1993 |
| Running Time: | 130 minutes |
| Box Office Gross: |
$56,505,065 (US)
$0 (World) |
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When filmmakers release two similar films within less than a year (Armageddon and Deep Impact, for instance) comparisons are unavoidable I suppose. Such was the case with Tombstone and Wyatt Earp, in many ways as different as they are similar. Where Wyatt Earp is a biopic of Earp's life, Tombstone focuses on that town in...
(complete Tombstone review by Filmkiller)
Tombstone (1993) is the best movie of all the Wyatt Earp sagas and perhaps among the better great westerns of recent years. There have been numerous feature films produced about the legendary gunfight at O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp, and Doc Holiday such as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Wyatt Earp (1994), The Outlaw...
(complete Tombstone review by David Hurlbert)
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