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Brokeback Mountain: 20th Anniversary

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  • Trailer for Brokeback Mountain
  • Clip: You know that girl?

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Two shepherds fall for each other, but their relationship becomes complicated when they both get married to their respective girlfriends.

Cast

  • Heath Ledger
  • Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Randy Quaid
  • Valerie Planche
  • Dave Trimble
  • Victor Reyes
  • Lachlan Mackintosh
  • Michelle Williams
  • Larry Reese
  • Marty Antonini
Moviegoers are saying
This 2005 emotional powerhouse continues to devastate audiences nearly two decades later, with Heath Ledger delivering what reviewers unanimously call a career-defining performance in an absolutely heartbreaking love story. Despite mixed numerical ratings, the passionate tags and glowing commentary reveal a film that leaves viewers emotionally shattered yet eager to experience the journey again.
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Reviews

Metacritic

50

Takes great pains to be a compassionate love story; but the filmmaking itself, self-consciously restrained and desiccated, is inert and inexpressive.

Stephanie Zacharek
Salon
75

Isn't for everyone, but for those who are not bothered by the homosexual relationship, it offers a study in yearning, love, and loss. It didn't affect me as deeply as either The Bridges of Madison County or The Remains of the Day, but it evokes some of the same feelings.

Metacritic review by James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
100

There's neither coyness nor self-importance in Brokeback Mountain--just close, compassionate observation, deeply committed performances, a bone-deep feeling for hardscrabble Western lives. Few films have captured so acutely the desolation of frustrated, repressed passion.

Metacritic review by David Ansen
David Ansen
Newsweek