Brokeback Mountain details
Movie Details:
- Director: Ang Lee
- Produced By: Alberta Film Entertainment, This is That Productions
- Year: 2005
- Run Time: 134 minutes
- Country: Canada, USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R (for sexuality, language, and some drug use)
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Drama, Romance
- Filmed In: Color
- Release: 2006 01 13 (USA), 2005 12 09 (USA - Limited)
- Key Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Linda Cardellini, Randy Quaid, Kate Mara, Anna Faris, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Actor (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 2005), Best Actor (British Academy of Film and Television 2005), Best Actor (Broadcast Film Critics Association 2005), Full Awards
Ang Lee's adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's story Brokeback Mountain stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as young cowboys named Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar. Each of them is hired to corral sheep on the title location and they soon bond very closely. Their platonic relationship explodes into a physical one, but eventually the two are separated when their job comes to an end. Although the two follow different life paths -- one becoming a father of two and the other marrying into a successful business -- they have a reunion years later. Each is affected profoundly by the rekindling of their old feelings for each other. Those feelings lead each to consider what continuing their hidden relationship would cost them. The screenplay was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. by Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- cowboy
- family
- love
- sex
- love-affair
- ranch-hand
- sexual-identity
Themes:
- Infidelity
- Keeping a Secret
- Sexual Awakening
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
