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The Claim (2000)

R 12/29/2000 Drama, Romance, Western 2h 0m
60%
User
Score
6.3/10
62%
62/100

Everything has a price.

Overview

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

Michael Winterbottom

Director

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan

Daniel Dillon

Milla Jovovich

Milla Jovovich

Lucia

Wes Bentley

Wes Bentley

Donald Dalglish

Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Kinski

Elena Burn

Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley

Hope Burn

Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson

Annie

Julian Richings

Julian Richings

Francis Bellanger

Sean McGinley

Sean McGinley

Sweetley

Tom McCamus

Tom McCamus

Burn

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Media

The Claim (2000) Trailer

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on July 21, 2015

The Casterbridge Claim.

"Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven"

Michael Winterbottom directs what is in essence a Western version of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. It's Sierra Nevada, California, 1867 and the pioneer town of Kingdom Come is thriving under the strict but effective rule of Daniel Dillon (Peter Mullan). Dillon came by way of a gold claim many years earlier by way of a trade, the barter? His wife and child. But now the past is about to catch up with him and Kingdom Come could well turn out to be his burning hell...

Right off the bat it has to be said that The Claim is a difficult film to recommend, even to Western movie lovers. It's deliberately slow and purposely elegiac and ethereal. The literary aspects of the narrative posit...

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A review by Wuchak

Written on August 17, 2019

***The beginning and end of a boom town in the Sierra Nevadas***

During the California gold rush of 1849 a desperate man establishes a boom town in the Sierra Nevadas. Eighteen years later his abandoned wife & daughter (Nastassja Kinski & Sarah Polley) ride into town and turn his life (Peter Mullan) upside down. Milla Jovovich plays his singing saloon babe while Wes Bentley is on hand as a surveyor for the railroad that’s coming through.

“The Claim” (2000) is a top-of-the-line Western that inexplicably fell through the cracks when it was released. It has similarities to “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (1971), but with more interesting characters, a more compelling story and spectacular locations, not to mention less focus on a house of ill repute.

If you appreciate grim, real...

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