Lilith Fair babe Jewel's film debut we won't give away what might be called the money shot, but you'll know it when you see it is a moving, gorgeously filmed look at one of the Civil War's more obscure chapters, the quasi-official combat
that divided friends along the Missouri-Kansas border. It's 1862, and Confederate supporter Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich) takes up arms, along with friend Jake Roedel (Tobey Maguire), a boy on the wrong side of his pro-Northern father. Eventually they're joined by take-charger Black John (James
Caviezel), the psycho Pitt Mackeson (a very scary Jonathan Rhys Meyers), blue-blooded George Clyde (Simon Baker) and his qu...
Released:
1999
Rated:
R
Length:
134 mins