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Release Date:
2 February 2001 (UK)
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Tagline:
Everything has a price.
Plot:
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later...
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1 win
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8 nominations
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The Fourth Kind Trailer and TV Spots Give Milla Jovovich a Real (Acting) Challenge
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Somewhat pretentious, but ultimately powerful.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Peter Mullan | ... | Daniel Dillon | |
| Milla Jovovich | ... | Lucia | |
| Wes Bentley | ... | Donald Dalglish | |
| Nastassja Kinski | ... | Elena Burn | |
| Sarah Polley | ... | Hope Burn | |
| Shirley Henderson | ... | Annie | |
| Julian Richings | ... | Francis Bellanger | |
| Sean McGinley | ... | Mr. Sweetley | |
| Randy Birch | ... | Priest | |
| Tom McCamus | ... | Mr. Burn | |
| Frank Zotter | ... | Photographer | |
| Artur Ciastkowski | ... | Delany | |
| Barry Ward | ... | Young Dillon | |
| Karolina Muller | ... | Young Elena | |
| David Lereaney | ... | Saloon Actor |
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Also Known As:
Kingdom Come (USA) (working title)
Le maître de Kingdom Come (Canada: French title)
Rédemption (France)
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Le maître de Kingdom Come (Canada: French title)
Rédemption (France)
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Rated R for sexuality, and some language and violence.
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120 min | Spain:115 min (DVD edition)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:12 |
Singapore:M18 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Spain:13 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
South Korea:18 |
Australia:M
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The official Web site of the movie was one of the first to track a production day by day, with journal entries, commentary, still photographs and video. The Web site visitors were asked to help pick a new name for the production when the original title, "Kingdom Come", was awarded by the M.P.A.A. to a rival production.
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Featured in My Big Break (2009)
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Menina E Moca
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Probably more reminiscent of Heaven's Gate than the filmmakers would like, The Claim ultimately works much more effectively than Cimino's movie, for reasons that include Michael Winterbottom's ability to reign himself in a bit. One can almost feel the director yearning to make the movie bigger and more grandiose, but that would not be to its ultimate benefit. The first half hour is interminably boring, but the film ultimately overcomes that with a fine second half. I felt Wes Bentley was good, but may have been a bit miscast. He doesn't have the edge or mystique that one might have wanted from his character as a wandering surveyor for the railroad. Sarah Polley is excellent, and strikes an uncanny resemblance to the young Sondra Locke. Fortunately, she has more going on than Ms. Locke. The centerpiece performance really belongs to Peter Mullan. While Nastassia Kinski's role as a dying woman might give her a little more to play off of, Mullan usually has to play his role with more subtle looks. He does quite well at that. Winterbottom attempts to give this Western a very spare, haunting feel, and has mixed success. As mentioned, the first half seems to be regarded with more gravity by Winterbottom than the forward motion of the story should allow. The scene in the cabin that reveals the secret that Peter Mullan holds comes much too early, and is much too short. One misses the weight and import of this scene, simply because Peter Mullan agrees to the Faustian bargain much too soon. By the end, Winterbottom and the writer have managed to fashion a rather engrossing Western with a fairly classic feel. One feels that it would have been something Eastwood might have considered twenty-five years ago. The music is a real high point, with composer Michael Nyman using the requisite inspiration of Ennio Morricone's Once Upon a Time in the West (it is subtle, but it is there), while fashioning a haunting work in his own right. Cinematography by Alwin H. Kuchleris is tragically average. While the vistas are beautiful, and the look of the film should have been amazing, the work is too inconsistent. In the end, The Claim can be considered a flawed success. It isn't perfect, but it contains enough of value to sustain it, and the mere attempt at creating a Western of great artistic magnitude is appreciated.