Rent Wyatt Earp (1994)
3.4 of 5 from 111 ratings
3h 3min
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- Synopsis:
- Kevin Costner plays the most famous lawman ever to stride the Wild West. Academy Award winner Costner plays the man who became a myth in an epic, action-filled saga directed and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan. Gene Hackman as Wyatt's iron-willed father and Dennis Quaid as Earp's deadly best friend, Doc Holliday, add power to this hard-hitting Western. From Wichita to Dodge City to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt Earp is a thrilling journey of romance, adventure and mythic courage.
- Actors:
- Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, David Andrews, Linden Ashby, Jeff Fahey, Joanna Going, Mark Harmon, Michael Madsen, Catherine O'Hara, Bill Pullman, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Sizemore, JoBeth Williams, Mare Winningham, James Gammon, Rex Linn, Randle Mell, Adam Baldwin, Annabeth Gish
- Directors:
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Writers:
- Dan Gordon, Lawrence Kasdan
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 24/02/2008
- Run Time:
- 190 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 2.0, German Dolby Digital 2.0, Italian Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- Castillian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Deleted scenes
- Documentary It happened that way
- Vintage TV special Wyatt Eart: Walk with a legend
- Theatrical trailer
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Reviews (5) of Wyatt Earp
Western - Worth A Revisit - Wyatt Earp review by GI
Epic, sprawling western biopic that was a critical and commercial flop and was unfairly compared with Tombstone (1993) although they are two stylistically different films. Viewed today this film is entertaining, filmed and structured in a very Hollywood standard story telling way and to be honest all the better for it. It does slip in some homages which western fans will spot and attempts to play a part in John Ford's 'print the legend' maxim although a bit too casually to give the film any real gravitas. This is a film to sit back and just enjoy for it's cinematic grandeur and surface history. It is when boiled down a good ol' action western that has a good story, plenty of great action scenes and some stock western characters. Kevin Costner plays Earp as a very serious, emotionally damaged avenger with a story that begins with in his teens (with Ian Bohen in the first scenes as a young Earp), it then tells the story of his life from naïve drover to grieving alcoholic to lawman and killer. There's a good support cast including Gene Hackman as his father, Michael Madsen as his older brother Virgil and a slimmed down Dennis Quaid as Doc Holliday. A film well worth a revisit and re-evaluation because there is much to admire here, not least the sheer scale of the story and for it's attempt at a romanticised and retro style of western.
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Cheesy and historically inaccurate. - Wyatt Earp review by CP Customer
I rented this on the back of Kevin Costner's excellent 'Open Range’, but this is really an inferior film. The acting is cheesy, the story historically inaccurate and at three hours long it's a struggle to get through. If you've not seen the superb 'Open Range' or 'Broken Trail' then rent them and give this a miss.
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Not OK Corral - Wyatt Earp review by Colin Taylor
A boring and predictable film, done with zero originality and panache. Costner can be very hit and miss at times, and in this his portrayal is merely one-dimensional. Compared to great westerns like Open Range and The Outlaw Josie Wales, it just plods along, and you find yourself studying the costumes and predicting the tired dialogue. Like the 'Little House on the Prairie' with guns, the best bits are those magnificent moustaches that everyone wears!
0 out of 1 members found this review helpful.