Claim, The (UK)

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Certificate: 15
Running Time: 115 mins
Retail Price: £19.99
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Synopsis:
The American West has always been a repository of dreams, a place where cowboys, lawmakers, rustlers and gunslingers chased hopes that seemed larger and grander than life itself. Their stories have been told and re-told from new perspectives. But there is another story about the West that has never been re-imagined until now: the legends of the Gold Rush and the bold, driven pioneers who took on the extreme landscapes of the Sierra Nevada.

Michael Winterbottom`s The Claim stakes out this adventurous territory, with a raw, romantic tale of stark beauty and primal authenticity about how dreams collided with greed in the making of California. His is an epic story of love, passion and redemption set against the harsh landscape of the Sierra Nevada.

The Claim brings to life the heady days when California was the last frontier, the final untamed wilderness - and makes intensely personal a time that transformed the entire nation.

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Interactive Menus
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Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 2.35:1

Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English

Subtitle Tracks:
French
Italian
English
Dutch

Directed By:
Michael Winterbottom

Written By:


Starring:
Randy Birch
Sean McGinley
Julian Richings
Shirley Henderson
Sarah Polley
Nastassja Kinski
Wes Bentley
Milla Jovovich
Peter Mullan

Casting By:
Suzanne Smith
Billy Hopkins
Wendy Brazington
Kerry Barden

Soundtrack By:
Michael Nyman

Director of Photography:
Alwin H. Kuchler

Editor:
Trevor Waite

Costume Designer:
Joanne Hansen

Production Designer:
Mark Tildesley
Ken Rempel

Producer:
Anita Overland
Andrew Eaton
Douglas Berquist

Executive Producer:
David M. Thompson
Mark Shivas
Alexis Lloyd
Martin Katz
Andrea Calderwood

Distributor:
Pathe

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9 / 10
Not an action movie, so if that`s what you want, don`t buy it. Not really a Western, either. Just happens to be set in the old West. Apart from that, one of the best movies of the decade so far. The photography is quite extraordinary, and some scenes can only be described as surreal.

Pity about the 2.35 : 1 format. Quite impossible to accommodate on a tv set.
posted by escoville on 16/1/2008 16:36