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The Jack Bull (1999)

The Jack Bull poster
Directed by
John Badham
Genre
western, tv movie
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 56m
Rated
R
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 103 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A horse trader seeks justice after a wealthy landowner mistreats his animals and his tribe. His fight for fairness turns into a personal war that draws in local lawmen.

tensemelancholicslow-burnbleakgrittyseriousvisceralbroodingdetermined

What happens

The Jack Bull is a 1999 American Western television film directed by John Badham and written by Dick Cusack, loosely inspired by Heinrich von Kleist's 1810 novel Michael Kohlhaas. It stars John Cusack, John Goodman, L. Q. Jones, Miranda Otto, and John C. McGinley, and aired on HBO on April 17, 1999. Much of the movie was filmed at the CL Ranch and the Heritage Park Historical Village in Calgary, Alberta. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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