The Hired Hand (1971)
- Directed by
- Peter Fonda
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 81 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man comes back to his wife after seven years of wandering. She agrees to take him in only as a hired hand, not a husband.
contemplativemelancholicslow-burnvisually poeticgrittybittersweetlonelyreflective
What happens
The Hired Hand is a 1971 American Western film directed by Peter Fonda in his directorial debut, with a screenplay by Alan Sharp. The film stars Fonda, Warren Oates, and Verna Bloom. The cinematography was by Vilmos Zsigmond. Bruce Langhorne provided the moody film score. The story is about a man returning to his abandoned wife after seven years of drifting from job to job throughout the Southwestern United States. The embittered woman will only let him stay if he agrees to move in as a hired hand. Upon release, the film received a mixed critical response and was a financial failure. In 1973, the film was shown on NBC-TV in an expanded version, but soon drifted into obscurity. In 2001, a fully restored version was shown at various film festivals, gaining strong critical praise, and it was released by the Sundance Channel on DVD. It is now considered a classic Western of the period. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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