Brokeback Mountain
A sad love story between two cowboys Jack Twist anf Ennis DEl Mar. They met each other in the summer 1963 when they were hired to take care of a pack of huge sheeps. Gradually, they discover strange feelings to each other.
1951, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, USA
19 December 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 December 1980, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
16 June 1991, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
14 August 1971, Missoula, Montana, USA
25 June 1975, Redwood City, California, USA
29 November 1976, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
27 February 1983, Bedford, New York, USA
31 January 1943, Hawick, Borders, Scotland, UK
December 06, 2009
Brokeback Mountain is ultimately about the paralysis of regret and how it fractures the lives of not just those afflicted by it, but everyone else around them.
January 13, 2006
Like all great love stories, Ang Lee's is one of tragic romance, strongly acted by Heath Ledger as the most buttoned-up of cowboys, and Michelle Williams as his betrayed and enraged wife.
December 20, 2005
A sweeping, solemn, self-serious chronicle of their relationship over several decades.
August 30, 2009
Lee can't tell the difference between criticizing oppression and turning out an oppressed work
August 02, 2010
An important and original romance that really and finally portrays the homosexual romance as two humans falling in love and never plays it for clichés...
March 08, 2006
The approach is dry as the Wyoming landscape, and while it occasionally threatens to pull the film out of shape, it's still the right one for these men.
January 09, 2006
Ang Lee continues to astonish.
July 06, 2010
A romantic western with a twist, Brokeback Mountain is a haunting and well acted exploration of a forbidden and secretive love affair between two cowboys.
November 20, 2008
If you have the patience to sit through a slow-moving romance and you lack the vanity to be put off by explicit cowboy on cowboy relations, you'll greatly appreciate the light at the end of Brokeback Mountain, a work of art that's more than just a movie.
December 22, 2005
Lee has taken a story of gay love and placed it where it should be -- in the mainstream. He's delivered a beautifully crafted film to boot.
November 21, 2008
Arguably Ang Lee's best film, this swooning, achingly sad near-masterpiece offers a universal love story that lingers long in the mind.
January 06, 2006
Both [Gyllenhaal and Ledger] embody what that old Waylon and Willie song taught us -- 'Cowboys ain't easy to love, and they're harder to hold.'
