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The movie follows Tristan, the wildest of the Ludlow sons, whose failure to protect his brother puts his entire family on a path of betrayal and self-destruction. After his brother, Samuel, died in WWI, Tristan and Alfred return home, and both fall for Samuel's gorgeous fiancée, Susannah, and their intense rivalry begins to destroy the family.
22 December 1972, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
30 March 1942, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
20 July 1950, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
14 July 1971, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
10 January 1977, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
8 March 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 January 1965, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
19 November 1949, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
14 January 1972, Hong Kong
7 August 1979, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
18 December 1963, Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
9 September 1971, San Antonio, Texas, USA
4 November 1959, Saskatchewan, Canada
2 June 1984, British Columbia, Canada
4 August 1988, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
17 February 1935, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, UK
April 02, 2014
A weird melodramatic epic -- Bonanza crossbred with the kind of novel that uses Fabio on the cover.
April 02, 2014
Just when it starts to seem as if Legends might just turn into a pretty good movie, along comes some tired, soap-opera plot device.
April 02, 2014
Check your cynicism at the door, and just revel in its enormity.
April 02, 2014
At first, the picture plays like East of Eden with a bonus brother; it gets sillier as it goes.
April 02, 2014
There's a vast psychodrama being played out on the Ludlow ranch, battles between generations, philosophies, races and sexes. And the landscapes, photographed by John Toll, majestically backdrop all the personal and cultural furies.
April 02, 2014
Bloated as a TV miniseries two nights too long, Legends of the Fall is stiff and uninteresting.
April 02, 2014
It's a big movie that's so small on the inside it's not there.
April 02, 2014
The real star, however, is John Toll's Oscar-winning cinematography, which is equally at home with the stunning beauty of the mountainous terrain and the killing fields of war-torn France.
April 02, 2014
While the production is attractive in a calendar-photo sort of way, there's not a speck of genuine feeling in its glossy images.
April 02, 2014
It either sweeps you up in its rapturous emotional wake or -- and it's a big or -- you just sit there and snicker. I found myself alternately doing both, though fortunately more of the former than the latter.
April 02, 2014
The actors fit their roles exceptionally well, but Zwick rarely allows them the kinds of crucial, intimate moments that establish how the characters feel about each other.
April 02, 2014
Everything about Legends of the Fall shouts epic filmmaking and it is not an altogether unpleasant sound.
