{"id":36440,"date":"2024-08-20T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36440"},"modified":"2024-08-18T16:11:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T20:11:51","slug":"36440","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36440","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Open Range&#8221; (2003) directed by Kevin Costner, starring Robert Duvall &amp; Kevin Costner \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z082024zview_openrange.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Open Range<\/em> (2003)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Kevin Costner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Craig Storper; <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4dtSuXH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE OPEN RANGE MEN<\/a> by <strong>Lauran Paine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Robert Duvall, <\/strong><strong>Kevin Costner, Diego Luna, Abraham Benrubi, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter, James Russo, Peter MacNeill, Cliff Saunders, Julian Richings, Ian Tracey, Diego Diablo Del Mar <\/strong>and <strong>Kim Coates<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>No place to run. No reason to hide.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Boss&#8221; Spearman (Duvall) and Charley Waite (Costner) are cattlemen driving their herd across country.\u00a0 Along with them are Mose and Button, two young hired hands.\u00a0 They decide to bed down for a few nights.\u00a0 Mose is sent into a nearby town for supplies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Mose doesn&#8217;t return, Boss and Charley ride into town.\u00a0 They find Mose in jail and badly beaten.\u00a0 It turns out that rancher Denton Baxter (Gambon) doesn&#8217;t tolerate cattlemen crossing his land.\u00a0 Baxter has the Sheriff on his payroll and the town afraid to do anything.\u00a0 Baxter and the Sheriff release Mose with the warning to Boss and Charlie to be gone by nightfall.<\/p>\n<p>That ain&#8217;t going to happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kevin Costner got the project going, starred in and directed it.\u00a0 Touchstone gave him top billing until he requested that Robert Duvall be credited first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Open Range<\/em> is just about perfect.\u00a0 Great story, cast, acting, and direction.\u00a0 Robert Duvall is a national treasure.\u00a0 I rank <em>Open Range<\/em> higher than<em> Dances with Wolves<\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s that good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Open Range (2003)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z082024zview_openrange2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Range (2003) Director: Kevin Costner Screenplay: Craig Storper; based on THE OPEN RANGE MEN by Lauran Paine Stars: Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36496,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36440\/revisions\/36496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}