Lonesome Dove
(1989),
Director: Simon Wincer, rated TV-14 for frontier
violence
An Epic Film
as Big as The West
 Starring: Robert Duvall,
Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Robert Urich, Frederic
Forrest, D. B. Sweeney, Ricky Schroder, Anjelica Huston, Chris Cooper,
Barry Corbin, William Sanderson,
Steve Buscemi
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★★★
- perfect
DML Top 50
#4 -
Dad's Full (Spoiler) Review
and Deep Dive of Lonesome Dove
"By god, it ain't dyin' I'm
talkin' about, it's livin!" - Gus McCrae to Captain
Woodrow Call
Why watch this? An
American masterpiece that
perfectly balances Western myth and Western realism.
Plot Summary:
Two aging former Texas Rangers, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, now
running a small cattle company near the Texas-Mexico border.
Dissatisfied with their routine life, they embark on an
ambitious cattle drive to establish a new ranch in the Montana
territory, a land described as a cattleman's paradise.
Dad's Preview:
This epic saga is unforgettable, with its wonderful characters,
converging story lines and brutally honest plot points. Capt. Call is
a hard, determined leader. He's kept in step by his more
laid-back partner, Gus, whose warm smile reminds me of my
grandfather, Charley Straley. Charley was a lifelong Texas rancher...
humble, hard-working, intelligent, apolitical. He loved to joke,
smoke his pipe and partake in an occasional sip o' whiskey down
at the barn's tackroom. He and Gus would have been good buddies,
for sure.

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