Heaven's Gate
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Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion, a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson. As the struggle escalates, Averill and Champion begin to question their decisions.
Released: 1980
Category: movie
Running time: 217 min
Language: English
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CinemaSerf
"Averill" (Kris Kristofferson) is from wealthy stock, a Harvard graduate, and a decent man who takes up a job as a sheriff in rural Wyoming. Most of the town's population have fled persecution and pov...
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Has any film undergone the level of critical turnaround afforded HEAVEN'S GATE (1980) since its initial banishment and failure? Nearly four decades removed from the vitriol and scorn heaped upon, not ...
Wuchak
***Cimino’s epic Western about the Johnson County War, unjustly lambasted by critics***
With the government’s blessing, cattle barons in Wyoming circa 1890 hire an army of mercenaries to kill claim...
John Chard
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Barbed wire and women are the two greatest civilising agents in the world.
Heaven’s Gate is written and directed by Michael Cimino and stars Kris Kristofferson, Christopher ...
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