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Wild Bill
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Total votes: 154
Average Rating: 3.1
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Year: 1995
Genre: Drama / Western
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Director: Walter Hill
Cast: Jeff Bridges,
Ellen Barkin, John Hurt, Diane Lane, Keith Carradine,
David Arquette,
Christina Applegate,
Bruce Dern, James Remar
Audiences overlooked this film, one of the better westerns in several years, 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, utilizing a screenplay based both on Pete Dexter's novel Deadwood and on 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 centerpiece is the sad, manly performance by Bridges, who more than measures up to the part.
Source: Marshall Fine (Amazon.com)
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