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The Newton Boys is a 1998 American Western crime film directed by Richard Linklater, who co-wrote the screenplay with Claude Stanush and Clark Lee Walker. It is based on Stanush's 1994 book of the same name, which tells the true story of the Newton Gang, a family of bank and train robbers from Uvalde, Texas.
- $27 million
- March 27, 1998
- Anne Walker-McBay
- Edward D. Barnes
Mar 27, 1998 · The Newton Boys: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, Gail Cronauer. The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence.
- (12K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Richard Linklater
- 1998-03-27
Mar 27, 1998 · Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The Newton boys were the most successful bank robbers in American history, up until the savings and loan bandits of the 1980s. Operating in the Roaring '20s, they hit as many as 200 banks and then pulled off the nation's biggest train robbery, a mail train heist in northern Illinois.
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Seeking an escape from poverty, sibling Texas farmers (Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke) gain notoriety as daring 1920s bank robbers.
- (176)
- Richard Linklater
- PG-13
- Matthew Mcconaughey
Mar 26, 1998 · Overview. The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the oldest of them, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers and execute the greatest train robbery in American history five years later.
