Cry Macho [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray]

Director: Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood

Overview

In 1978, down-on-his-luck rodeo professional Mike Milo (Clint Eastwood) agrees to help out his former employer reunite with his young son, who is endangered by the antics of his erratic, alcoholic mother. As Mike and the boy venture across the deserts of rural Mexico back to Texas, the boy experiences meaningful lessons in life, masculinity, and morality from the grizzled cowboy. Based on the novel of the same name by N. Richard Nash. Directed by Eastwood. Co-starring Fernanda Urrejola and Dwight Yoakam.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/07/2021
UPC:	0883929783670
Original Release:	2021
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	ALLIED VAUGHN
Language:	English
Format:	Blu-ray
Sales rank:	11,023

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Clint Eastwood	Mike Milo
Dwight Yoakam	Howard Polk
Daniel V. Graulau	Mexican Border Officer
Amber Lynn Ashley	Hippie Girl
Brytnee Ratledge	Hippie Girl
Alexandra Ruddy	Hippie Girl
Sebestien Soliz	Worker
Fernanda Urrejola	Leta
Eduardo Minett	Rafo
Natalia Traven	Marta
Marco Rodríguez	Porfirio
Abiah Martinez	6-Year-Old Granddaughter
Ramona Thornton	4-Year-Old Granddaughter
Elida Munoz	14-Year-Old Granddaughter
Jorge-Luis Pallo	Deputy Diaz
Ana Rey	Señora Reyes
Paul Lincoln Alayo	Sergeant Perez
Alexander Alayon Jr.	Saddlery
Martin Edward Andazola	Mexican Cowboy
Ruben Barela	Federal Police Policía Federal
Rob Estrada	Mexican Border Police Officer
Darlene Kellum	Town Local
Horacio Rojas	Aurelio
Fausto Olmos Rentería	Federale #1
Alejandro Rodriguez	Café Patron
Mark Mancina	Composer

Technical Credits

Clint Eastwood	Director
David M. Bernstein	Executive Producer
Geoffrey MiClat	Casting
Lee Orloff	Sound Mixer

Scene Index

Introduction ix

My Half: Kind Candor xvi

Part I The Emotional Ingredients 1

Gratitude 3

Self-Awareness 11

Accountability 17

Optimism 23

Empathy 27

Kindness 33

Tenacity 39

Curiosity 45

Patience 51

Conviction 55

Humility 59

Ambition 65

Part II Real-Life Scenarios 69

Part III Exercises 175

Conclusion 191

The inspiration Behind This Book 195

Acknowledgments 197

Notes 199

Editorial Reviews

Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino) stars and directs Cry Macho, from a script by Nick Schenk (The Mule) and the author of the novel on which it is based, N. Richard Nash (The Rainmaker). Unfortunately, while it is a good tale of redemption, it does not translate well to the screen. Mike Milo (Eastwood) is a washed-up rodeo star and horse trainer. He used to be at the top of his game, but a rodeo injury and the death of his wife and child in a car accident have left him broken and directionless. Mike reluctantly agrees when his former boss, Howard Polk (Dwight Yoakam), visits and asks him to go to Mexico to retrieve his son Rafo (Eduardo Minett). But when Mike arrives, he discovers that things may not be as they seem. Rafo decides to return and in making it back to the Texas border, Mike discovers much more about himself than he does Rafo along the way. Cry Macho should be a touching film, but the script never seems to get its legs. Eastwood's direction of the film and the actors is his usual high quality; there just isn't enough to direct. The story shuffles forward in ebbs and flows until it finally reaches its anticlimactic climax. The basis, finding redemption through making ones' own decisions, is a good one. There isn't much else there to make the audience care about it. Many brief, underdeveloped moments make the film seem more like a collage than a linear story. Had these been addressed more carefully and thoroughly, this could have become an instant classic. As it stands, it is likely to fade; its only fame will be as perhaps Eastwood's one near-failure. Except for Eastwood, who nails the grieving, angry, hopeless Mike well, the acting is spotty - and in Yoakam's case, wooden. The location managers did a fine job of making New Mexico look like Mexico itself. It was certainly no accident that the town Mike and Rafo spend most of their time in is dry, dusty, and forgotten-looking - much like Mike. The costuming is solid, too - fitting well with, at least from a gringo point-of-view, the image of an almost forgotten Mexico town. Cry Macho is not a bad film, and that might be part of the problem. If it were terrible, audiences could forgive many of the issues with the screenplay and some of the acting. But since it does have a genuinely good story and message, the gaps in the storytelling make what could have been a touching tale more of a crying shame.

07/29/2019

Arnold’s debut is a lyrical but long-winded portrayal of a woman reckoning with the disappointments of her life. Ash passes her days swimming at a deserted lake with her seven-year-old daughter, Charlie. When she senses Charlie grow distant as she gets older, Ash commits an unforgivable act while trying to reconnect. This sets in motion the crumbling of Ash’s emotional world, revealing memories of an affair with her yoga instructor, a capricious bisexual woman, and a complicated relationship with her father. Ash slips into a depression that confines her to bed, forcing her husband into the arms of a family friend who comes by to care for Charlie. The narrator’s idiosyncratic, troubled personality is expressed through her obsessive interest in sounds and words. During her first date with her husband, she tells him that she collects words, stating that “finding the right word is like finding a pebble on a whole beach of pebbles.” Arnold uses language like a set of dominoes, connecting endings of sentences to beginnings with sounds and phrases to create an artful tumble of prose. However, the novel’s high style comes at the price of momentum, and it becomes opaque to the point of being inaccessible. With very little plot, Arnold’s novel asks questions of profound moral consequence that get lost in the fogginess of its narrator. (July)

Publishers Weekly

Any serious student of Reformed theology needs to sit at the feet of Petrus van Mastricht. The challenge has been that to do so you needed to know Latin or Dutch. Thanks to the herculean efforts of the folks at the Dutch Reformed Translation Society and Reformation Heritage Books, English readers can now learn the art of ‘living for God through Christ.’” —Stephen J. Nichols, president of Reformation Bible College and chief academic officer of Ligonier Ministries


“With each translation of the formative Reformed theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries comes the possibility of our churches being renewed by forgotten treasures. This is one of those gold mines. So important is van Mastricht that even Descartes felt obliged to respond to his critiques and Jonathan Edwards drew deeply from the well of his Theoretical-Practical Theology. It is a distinct pleasure to recommend this remarkable gem.” —Michael Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics, Westminster Seminary California


“The very title of this work, Theoretical-Practical Theology, indicates why, three centuries ago, Petrus van Mastricht’s work appealed to Scottish ministers who studied under him or read his theology. Not least of these was his student James Hog, who would later famously republish The Marrow of Modern Divinity. In making van Mastricht’s classic available in English for a new generation of students, pastors, and scholars, the Dutch Reformed Translation Society and Reformation Heritage Books are giving a great gift to the Christian church as a whole, and to students, pastors, and scholars in particular.” —Sinclair B. Ferguson, Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary; and teaching fellow, Ligonier Ministries

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