All the Pretty Horses

Year: 2000
Cast: Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz, Ruben Blades, Lucas Black, Henry Thomas, Robert Patrick, Julio Mechoso, Miriam Colon, Bruce Dern, Sam Shepard
Directed By: Billy Bob Thornton

John Grady Cole (Damon) is a dispossessed Texas cowboy in the late 1940s who, along with his buddy Lacey Rawlins (Thomas) and teen misfit Blevins (Black), crosses the border for, he hopes, a better life in Mexico. What he finds is an ill-fated romance with the beautiful daughter (Cruz) of a possessive rancher (Blades). It's pretty, all right. But thanks to Thornton's uneven pacing and inability to settle on a visual style, the story, and splendor, of the book is lost somewhere along the way. Of the young (and also pretty) cast, Damon and especially Black fare the best. Based on the first book of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy.

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