Fresh
The approach is dry as the Wyoming landscape, and while it occasionally threatens to pull the film out of shape, it's still the right one for these men.
Keith Phipps, AV Club
Overview
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
Director and cast
- Ang Lee Director
- Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist
- Michelle Williams as Alma Beers
- Anne Hathaway as Lureen Newsome
- Randy Quaid as Joe Aguirre
- Linda Cardellini as Cassie Cartwright
- Anna Faris as Lashawn Malone
- David Harbour as Randall Malone
- Roberta Maxwell as Mrs. Twist
- Kate Mara Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Like all great love stories, Ang Lee's is one of tragic romance, strongly acted by Heath Ledger as the most buttoned-up of cowboys, and Michelle Williams as his betrayed and enraged wife.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Fresh
Ang Lee continues to astonish.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Fresh
Both [Gyllenhaal and Ledger] embody what that old Waylon and Willie song taught us -- 'Cowboys ain't easy to love, and they're harder to hold.'
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
Lee has taken a story of gay love and placed it where it should be -- in the mainstream. He's delivered a beautifully crafted film to boot.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
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