Lonesome Dove

directed by Simon Wincer
List(s):"Movie Two"
Category: "Television"
Year of Release:1989
Date Added:08/20/2015
Date Watched:10/03/2024
Description:Two ex-Texas Rangers, Gus (Robert Duvall) and Woodrow (Tommy Lee Jones), bored with their life in south Texas, decide to drive a herd of cattle to Montana and start a ranch. Along the way, they deal with outlaws, horse thieves, Indians, and weather. Gus rescues Lorena (Diane Lane) from a gang of outlaws and brings her along. An old partner of theirs, Jake (Robert Urich) takes up with murderes, so the partners hang him along with his gang. Gus loses his leg, and when gangrene sets in, dies. He makes Woodrow promise to bury him in Texas, so Woodrow has to take him all the way back.
My Rating:6

Reviews for Lonesome Dove

Review - Lonesome Dove

Interesting but sad. Nobody in the movie got what he or she wanted out of life. Except, perhaps, for the sheriff who went looking for his runaway wife and ended up on a horse ranch with a good job and his infant son, there is no redemption for anyone. Just a bunch of people who ended up dead or disappointed. There were a lot more plot threads than what I covered, but basically it was a story of a search for happiness without a shred of faith.
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