Open Range

A leisurely elegy for the American West with "Kevin Costner's Unforgiven" written all over it. That's not inherently a bad thing: Clint Eastwood's UNFORGIVEN (1992) is one of the best Westerns of the late 20th century. The drawback is that actor-turned-director Costner isn't Eastwood. The western frontier, 1882: Grizzled Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall) is a free-grazer, a land-poor cattle owner who keeps his stock moving and grazes them on the wide-open range. Boss has a crew of three. Second-in-command Charley Waite (Costner) is a veteran saddle tramp who doesn't talk much but knows everything worth knowing about working cattle and living off the land. Chubby, perpetu...