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This is a gloomy love story of two cowboys, who bump across each other in the summer while they both get a job to tend to a pack of huge sheep. With time they learn that they have developed feelings for each other.
27 February 1983, Bedford, New York, USA
25 June 1975, Redwood City, California, USA
1 October 1950, Houston, Texas, USA
22 December 1949, Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
27 April 1999, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
10 April 1975, New York, USA
4 April 1979, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
1942, Ontario, Canada
31 January 1943, Hawick, Borders, Scotland, UK
August 02, 2010
An important and original romance that really and finally portrays the homosexual romance as two humans falling in love and never plays it for clichés...
January 09, 2006
Ang Lee continues to astonish.
January 06, 2006
Both [Gyllenhaal and Ledger] embody what that old Waylon and Willie song taught us -- 'Cowboys ain't easy to love, and they're harder to hold.'
March 08, 2006
The approach is dry as the Wyoming landscape, and while it occasionally threatens to pull the film out of shape, it's still the right one for these men.
December 22, 2005
Lee has taken a story of gay love and placed it where it should be -- in the mainstream. He's delivered a beautifully crafted film to boot.
August 30, 2009
Lee can't tell the difference between criticizing oppression and turning out an oppressed work
November 21, 2008
Arguably Ang Lee's best film, this swooning, achingly sad near-masterpiece offers a universal love story that lingers long in the mind.
December 06, 2009
Brokeback Mountain is ultimately about the paralysis of regret and how it fractures the lives of not just those afflicted by it, but everyone else around them.
July 06, 2010
A romantic western with a twist, Brokeback Mountain is a haunting and well acted exploration of a forbidden and secretive love affair between two cowboys.
November 20, 2008
If you have the patience to sit through a slow-moving romance and you lack the vanity to be put off by explicit cowboy on cowboy relations, you'll greatly appreciate the light at the end of Brokeback Mountain, a work of art that's more than just a movie.
January 13, 2006
Like all great love stories, Ang Lee's is one of tragic romance, strongly acted by Heath Ledger as the most buttoned-up of cowboys, and Michelle Williams as his betrayed and enraged wife.
December 20, 2005
A sweeping, solemn, self-serious chronicle of their relationship over several decades.
