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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
description written by member Zara:
Two sheepherders fall in love and spend the next couple of decades meeting up and going back to the same spot.
| Release Date: | December 9th, 2005 |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Running Time: | 134 minutes |
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Brokeback Mountain Movie Review by Zara  (12/14/2008) |
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I guess I didn't review this movie earlier because I felt it had enough reviews to sustain it. But looking over some of the reviews here, I have to point out that I'm one of the few people who wasn't so overly impressed with the movie like everyone else was.
First of all, it's a sappy romance. I didn't like THE NOTEBOOK...
(complete Brokeback Mountain review by Zara)
| Brokeback Mountain Movie Review by AJ (4/14/2006) |
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Most likely the pinnacle of Lee's career, Brokeback Mountain is a somber, evocative film that manages to highlight the underlying themes of fear, guilt, and violence that pervade its homosexual romance without distracting from the romance itself as a single, beautiful entity that pulses in the heart of the film. The actors...
(complete Brokeback Mountain review by AJ)
| Brokeback Mountain Movie Review by Tony (4/4/2006) |
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"Brokeback Mountain" is directed by Ang Lee, who is pound for pound one of the best directors in Hollywood today. He shows that here with his Academy Award winning directing job in this wonderful film. This might be the best example of perfect Hollywood craftsmanship since 2004's "Million Dollar Baby". Lush landscapes,...
(complete Brokeback Mountain review by Tony)
| Brokeback Mountain Movie Review by Justin (3/25/2006) |
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This one's every bit as good as the hype. It's a tragic, acutely sensitive meditation on the force and complexities of love, and the struggle to reckon with our deepest and most inexplicable yearnings, provocative as they often are. Ang Lee's graceful direction sidesteps the cliches so common to tales of forbidden love...
(complete Brokeback Mountain review by Justin)
| Brokeback Mountain Movie Review by Rodney (3/9/2006) |
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Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain is a well-acted, well-developed story of 2 cowboys that act on their feelings regardless of how many people they will destroy in the process.
Jake Gyllenhall plays the role of Jack Twist, a bull rider from Texas who comes to signal, Wyoming to work as a sheepherder for the summer. Heath...
(complete Brokeback Mountain review by Rodney)
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