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The Claim is a 2000 Western romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Peter Mullan, Wes Bentley, Sarah Polley, Nastassja Kinski and Milla Jovovich. [2] The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is loosely based on the 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman.
- $20,000,000 (estimated)
- Andrew Eaton
Jul 27, 2001 · A prospector who sold his wife and daughter for a mining claim tries to win them back as he helps build the Pacific Railroad. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this film.
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- Drama, Romance, Western
- Michael Winterbottom
- 2001-07-27
Apr 20, 2001 · The Claim is a 2001 film by Michael Winterbottom, starring Peter Mullan and Nastassja Kinski, that adapts Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge into a Western setting. It explores the themes of memory, regret, redemption and justice in a town of gold and violence, where a surveyor, a judge and a surveyor's mistress collide.
The Claim is a film by Michael Winterbottom, starring Peter Mullan, Wes Bentley, and Milla Jovovich. It follows the story of a pioneer who runs a gold mining town and faces threats from a surveyor and his past.
- (85)
- Michael Winterbottom
- R
- Peter Mullan
A movie based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, about a wealthy prospector who sold his wife and daughter for a gold mine and tries to win them back. The plot involves a surveyor, a railroad, a rosary, and a secret past.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2003. One of the year's most visually stylistic films. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002. The Claim works best as an antitraditional ...
Dec 29, 2000 · Michael Winterbottom. Thomas Hardy. Frank Cottrell Boyce. 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.
