Appaloosa

Overview

Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen star as a pair of lawmen out to rescue a chaotic Western town from the throes of a criminal rancher in Appaloosa, an adaptation of the Robert B. Parker novel that puts Harris back behind the camera for the second time after his acclaimed directorial debut with Pollock. Ren?e Zellweger co-stars as a double-dealing widow whose appearance creates a rift between the two men and their mission.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/13/2009
UPC:	0794043127816
Original Release:	2008
Rating:	R
Source:	New Line Home Video
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:55:00
Sales rank:	12,612

Special Features

Commentary by Director Ed Harris and Screenwriter/Producer Robert Knott; ; Additional Scenes with Selectable Ed Harris/Robert Knott Commentary; ; Corral of 4 Insightful Featurettes: Bringing the Characters of Appaloosa to Life; Historic Accuracy of Appaloosa; The Town of Appaloosa; Dean Semler's Return to the Western

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Ed Harris	Virgil Cole,Actor,Judge Elias Callison
Viggo Mortensen	Everett Hitch
Renée Zellweger	Allie
Jeremy Irons	Randall Bragg
Luce Rains	Dean
James Tarwater	Actor,Actor
Boyd Kestner	Bronc
Gabriel Marantz	Joe Whitfield
Cerris Morgan-Moyer	Tilda
James Gammon	Earl May
Timothy Spall	Phil Olson
Lance Henriksen	Ring Shelton
Tom Bower	Abner Raines
Bobby Jauregui	Actor,Marshall Jack Bell
Ariadna Gil	Actor
Timothy V. Murphy	Vince,Actor
Benjamin Rosenshein	Town Boy
Erik J. Bockemeier	Fat Wallis
Fred Hice	Bragg's Third Man,Bragg's Third Man
Neil Summers	Bragg's Fourth Man
Tim Carroll	Wagon Driver
Bounthanh Xaynhachack	Chin
Art Usher	Clerk
Cliff Gravel	Barber
Mike Watson	Night Rider
Rex Linn	Clyde Stringer
Corby Griesenbeck	Charlie Tewksbury
Adam Nelson	Mackie Shelton
Daniel T. Parker	Actor
Ed Pennybacker	Conductor
Alvin Lunak	Sharps
Martin Connelly	Apache Elder
Danny Edmo	Young Brave,Actor
Argos MacCallum	Beauville Sheriff Russell
Cynthia Huerta	Mexican Woman
Charlene Adams	Actor
David Bard	Actor
Maria J. Bethke	Actor,Citizen of Appaloosa
Scott Brooks	Citizen of Appaloosa
Stephen Chomko	Citizen of Appaloosa
Robert Colby	Actor
Charles Culberson	Citizen of Appaloosa
Robert Down	Citizen of Appaloosa
Jackie Fleming	Citizen of Appaloosa
Jim Granger	Citizen of Appaloosa
Nancy Ann Hibbs	Citizen of Appaloosa
Nick Johnson	Citizen of Appaloosa,Citizen of Appaloosa,Actor
Glen Kappy	Citizen of Appaloosa,Actor
Kevin Kinsner	Citizen of Appaloosa
Norm Lee	Citizen of Appaloosa,Citizen of Appaloosa
Loretta Lewis	Citizen of Appaloosa
Skip Long	Citizen of Appaloosa
Tom McFarlane	Actor
Dani McNutt	Citizen of Appaloosa
Sylvie Mortenson	Citizen of Appaloosa
Sandy Nickal	Citizen of Appaloosa
Kyle Osborne	Citizen of Appaloosa,Actor
Hunter Lee Pimparapana	Citizen of Appaloosa
Marvin Rath	Citizen of Appaloosa
Randall Sauls	Citizen of Appaloosa
Claire Schwebke	Citizen of Appaloosa
Nathan Simmons	Citizen of Appaloosa
Chloe Slator	Citizen of Appaloosa,Citizen of Appaloosa
John Turner	Actor
Bailey Walter	Citizen of Appaloosa,Citizen of Appaloosa,Citizen of Appaloosa
Ernest Andreas	Citizen of Appaloosa
Ian Bell	Citizen of Appaloosa
Martin Callahan	Citizen of Appaloosa
Cynthia Clark	Citizen of Appaloosa,Actor
Lowell Crawford	Citizen of Appaloosa
Timothy David	Citizen of Appaloosa
Flynn-Bella Ericson	Citizen of Appaloosa
Dennis Foulkrod	Citizen of Appaloosa
Ruben Haddix	Citizen of Appaloosa
Jerrall Hinds	Citizen of Appaloosa
Jeff Kimerling	Citizen of Appaloosa,Actor
Daniel Krieger	Citizen of Appaloosa
Isabelle Leustig	Citizen of Appaloosa
Denise Lynch	Citizen of Appaloosa
Diana McGuerty	Citizen of Appaloosa
Diana Minfa	Citizen of Appaloosa
Ernest Moya	Citizen of Appaloosa
Michael Max Norris	Citizen of Appaloosa
Trevor Osborn	Citizen of Appaloosa
Michael Neal Powell	Citizen of Appaloosa
L.C. Read	Citizen of Appaloosa
Daphne D. Ross	Citizen of Appaloosa
Darrell Schmidt	Citizen of Appaloosa,Actor
Cecily Kuehl Shank	Citizen of Appaloosa
Frankey Singzilay	Citizen of Appaloosa
Elizabeth Ann Tuttle	Citizen of Appaloosa
David Jensen	Actor
Tom Larson	Actor
Matthew Montoya	Actor,Actor
Jerry Fuentes	Actor
Girard Swan	Actor
Herman Endito	Actor
Alicia Williams	Actor
Heather Antonio	Citizen of Appaloosa
Daniel Jon Bergman	Actor
Miles Blackman	Actor
Mabel Jin Chin	Actor
Leonaldan Codanti	Actor
Jake Crellin	Actor
Rachel De la Torre	Actor
Chuck Ferran	Actor
Christopher Frechette	Actor
Bruce Harders	Actor
Perry Jasper	Actor
Xander Laird	Actor
Michael Lente	Actor
Jennae Linnell	Actor
Lynn Macri	Citizen of Appaloosa
Henry McKeighen	Actor
Kevin New	Actor
Frank Nunn	Actor
Kristine Rael	Actor
Steve Rick	Actor
Tom E. Rostkowski	Actor
Carol Sieber	Actor
Edward Sipler	Actor
Fionn Thelen	Citizen of Appaloosa
J.C. Augare	Apache
Anderson Chee	Actor
Wes Trudell	Actor
Kiela Bird	Actor
Bud Connley	Actor
Jerry Hardy	Actor
Les Schesser	Actor
Larry Hinsley	Actor
Frank Spencer	Actor
Adam Honeyfield	Actor
Greg Stevenson	Actor
Clark Sanchez	Teamster
Daniel Parker	Mueller
Jeff Beal	Composer

Technical Credits

Ed Harris

Robert Knott

Robert B. Parker

Ed Harris	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Ginger Sledge	Producer
Robert Knott	Producer,Screenwriter
Dean Semler	Camera Operator
Robert B. Parker	Screenwriter
Sam Brown	Executive Producer
Caldecot Chubb	Executive Producer
Toby Emmerich	Executive Producer
Michael London	Executive Producer,Producer
Tricia Henry Ashford	Special Effects
Paul Berolzheimer	Sound Effects
David Lee Fein	Sound Effects
Alan Freedman	Sound Effects
Cole Gittinger	Sound Effects
Jeanne McCarthy	Casting
Nicole Abellera	Casting
Elizabeth Gabel	Casting

Editorial Reviews

Buried at the center of many classic Westerns is a love story between grown men. My Darling Clementine, Rio Bravo, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are just some of the beloved oaters that are as much about men's loyalty and companionship as they are about gunslinging. Appaloosa fits snugly into that venerable tradition. Director and co-screenwriter Ed Harris plays Virgil Cole, a lawman for hire who travels the Wild West with his longtime deputy, the eight-gauge-toting Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen). The title town hires the duo after politically connected rancher Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) guns down the local sheriff. The situations and the settings of Appaloosa might be very familiar, but the close relationship between the two leads is uncommonly specific. Their friendship, formed by years of surviving potentially fatal battles together, runs deep. This bond is expressed through sly grins, kidding words, and their mutual sense of professionalism. Let's be clear, Ed Harris has not remade Brokeback Mountain -- this is a buddy film -- but he is unafraid to examine the complicated inner lives of two very manly men. Harris and Mortensen have a genuine chemistry together -- they get laughs out of throwaway bits of business because you can tell how much the two characters mean to each other. Complicating their showdown with the bad guy, as well as their relationship to each other, is Renée Zellweger as Allison French, the town's newest citizen. When both men take a shine to her, audiences are prepped for a traditional love triangle, but Harris has thankfully cooked up something rather more unconventional. Because the machinations of catching the bad guy take a back seat to the motivations and emotions of the two leads, the second half of Appaloosa doesn't have the narrative rush that the first half does. However, this shouldn't scare off genre enthusiasts, as Harris more than satisfies the traditions of the genre -- especially in three realistically quick and explosive gunfights (one of them the classic quick-draw, showdown on Main Street variety). The achievement of Appaloosa, for all of the movie's familiar qualities, is that the characters are so specific that they reinvigorate the conventions. Thanks to the fine acting, the solid direction, and the first-rate screenplay, the highly entertaining Appaloosa is simultaneously a traditional Western, a buddy comedy, and a love story.