All the Pretty Horses (2000) on Netflix
PG-1320001h 56mDramaRomanceWestern
In 1949, John Grady Cole loses his family's ranch and rides into Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins to find work. There he meets Alejandra Villarreal, the daughter of a wealthy rancher.
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- Rotten Tomatoes32%
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Plot summary
The Cole family's Texas ranch is sold in 1949, and John Grady Cole, who has lived there all his life, is left without a home. He asks his friend Lacey Rawlins to ride south with him across the border into Mexico, where they hope to find work as cowboys. On the trail the two take up with a boy named Jimmy Blevins, then part ways with him. They hire on at the ranch of Don Hector de la Rocha y Villarreal, who values their work. Cole falls in love with the rancher's daughter, Alejandra Villarreal, and her wealthy aunt does not welcome his interest.
Cast
- Angelina Torresas Luisa (as Angelina C. Torres)
- J.D. Youngas Grandfather
- Yvette Diazas Girl
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about All the Pretty Horses (2000)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Billy Bob Thornton's cut ran three hours and forty minutes, and when he refused to trim it, studio chief Harvey Weinstein forced the runtime down to under two hours and replaced Daniel Lanois's original score with music by Marty Stuart.
- Star Matt Damon publicly attacked Weinstein's marketing, saying the studio built a trailer around him and Penélope Cruz skinny-dipping to a Bono song and used a tagline about untamable passions, even though the film is actually about unrequited love being crushed by circumstance.
- Thornton has kept his own two-hour-forty-two-minute director's cut on VHS but refuses to release it publicly, out of respect for composer Daniel Lanois, who owns the rights to the rejected original score.
