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The Claim

2000 · 120 min

A stark, snowbound frontier drama of buried guilt and hard-won fortune, unfolding slowly and leaving a cold, mournful ache.

Genres
Drama, Romance, Western
Tagline
Everything has a price.
Overview
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. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • guilt
  • betrayal
  • family
  • redemption
  • grief
Places
  • wilderness
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour1
Realism7
Romance6
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama, romance, western
Directed by
Michael Winterbottom
Written by
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Starring
Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley, Shirley Henderson, Julian Richings, Sean McGinley
Music
Michael Nyman
Cinematography
Alwin H. Küchler
Runtime
120 min
Country
United Kingdom, Canada, France, United States of America
Languages
English

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