Brokeback Mountain
An unhappy love story among two cowboys Jack and Ennis and how they encounter each other in summer 1963 when they were employed to look after of a pack of many sheep. Slowly, they start to realise that they have weird feelings towards each other.
1 March 1974, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
27 April 1999, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
9 September 1980, Kalispell, Montana, USA
31 January 1943, Hawick, Borders, Scotland, UK
22 December 1949, Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
16 June 1991, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
14 August 1971, Missoula, Montana, USA
10 April 1975, New York, USA
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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...
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.
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 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.
January 09, 2006
Ang Lee continues to astonish.
December 20, 2005
A sweeping, solemn, self-serious chronicle of their relationship over several decades.
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.
