| 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. 
				 Motown 
				Productions; CBS
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