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Luke Kirby and Keith Carradine star in director Leonard Farlinger's adaptation of author Brad Smith's laid back neo-western novel. Ray Dokes (Kirby) has just been released from prison, and now as the laconic ex-con makes his way back home he is stunned to see just how much progress has transformed the countryside of his youth. Looking to lie low for a while, Ray heads to the farm of his good friend Pete Culpepper (Keith Carradine). A garrulous farmer who's drowning in debt, Pete is a true Texas cowboy whose corn seems too stubborn to grow this season. The first order of business for Ray is to visit his old flame Etta (Lisa Ray, but things have gotten complicated since Ray was put away and making his way to the woman he loves isn't going to be nearly as easy as he had hoped. Soon after hooking up with firebrand jockey Chrissis (Rachel Leigh Cook), Ray discovers that his old nemesis Sonny Staunton (Noam Jenkins) - the wealthy heir to a thoroughbred dynasty - is currently attempting to buy up as much farmland as possible in order to start breaking ground on a luxurious new golf course. It seems that Etta is the only member of the rural community bold enough to stand up against Sonny, but when a valuable thoroughbred goes missing from Staunton Stables the desperate entrepreneur forces the sale of the area's few remaining farms. Realizing the danger of contending with such a powerful and determined man (after all, it was Sonny who got Ray locked away in the first place), Ray does his best to sideline Sonny's nefarious plan and save the remaining farmlands without making the one false move that could land him back in jail.
Rating
R (for language and some sexual content)
Director
Leonard Farlinger
Studio
Odeon Films
Writer
Brad Smith
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- The plot is reasonably convincing, the pace tight, the laid-back score of jazz guitar and harmonica suitable to a film about country living, in which blood and gore are conspicuously absent.Reply
- The plot is reasonably convincing, the pace tight, the laid-back score of jazz guitar and harmonica suitable to a film about country living, in which blood and gore are conspicuously absent.Reply
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- Great writing, acting and it's well shot. The score gives the movie just the right pace. Some amazing framing on some of the close-ups. Ontario looks awesome!Reply
- not much of a comedy.. but more of a drama.. but it has its amusing parts.. and a sidenote.. Rachael Leigh Cook as a cute butt in them jeans eh :DReply
- A very good Canadian film shot in Alliston, Hamilton and Fort Erie, Ontario and set against the backdrop of horseracing, gambling and trying to save the farm. Although described as a comedy western, it's not really either, but it does have its amusing moments. Noam Jenkins is great as bad guy Sonny Stanton as he really made me hate him and the rest of the cast gave fine performances too.Reply
- A nice quirky film nothing to brag about but easy on the eye. Pretty straightforward how-to-get-back-at-spoiled -rich-guy movie. Love Chrissie's my kind of girl!Reply
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- The plot is reasonably convincing, the pace tight, the laid-back score of jazz guitar and harmonica suitable to a film about country living, in which blood and gore are conspicuously absent.Reply