Purgatory
by Uli Edel
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Actor: Donnie Wahlberg, Eric Roberts, Peter Stormare, Randy Quaid, Sam ShepardDirector: Uli Edel
Brand: NEW Line Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: T6769
Studio: Turner Home Ent
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- Between somewhere and nowhere in the untamed West is the small town of Refuge. There, neither the sheriff nor his deputy carry a sidearm. There's no jail either, because shooting, carousing and bad blood are not in the town's character. What peaceful folks live there? Wild Bill Hickok. Doc Holliday. Jesse James. Billy the Kid. All long dead. All mysteriously given a chance to undo their violent pa
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Movie Review: Great little western from straight out of the Twilight Zone
Summary: 5 Stars
I caught this movie on TV last night after a hiatus of several years. It was a made-for-TV film run on TNT, and should be shown a lot more often. It could have stood on its own as a feature in any theater as a great piece of movie making.
A gang of outlaws headed by the notorious Blackjack Britton lams out of town after a bank robbery and gets lost in a dust storm with the posse on their trail. They take a wrong turn, evading the posse, and come upon a spooky little place with a gated entrance guarded by an ancient Indian, who turns out to be keeping more than one gate. Was it luck or fate that brought them here? The townspeople all seem peculiarly docile. The sheriff wears a badge but not a gun. And Sonny, the youngest of the outlaw band and addicted to dime western novels, not an outlaw himself but who went along for the ride with his uncle, one of the gang members, realizes that the sheriff is a dead ringer for Wild Bill Hickock and the sheriff's friends look exactly like Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Jesse James and Lefty Slade, all dead for years. In fact, that's just who they turn out to be, and the town, called Refuge, is nowhere on earth, but is actually Purgatory, a mid-world created for people who are neither good enough to be admitted to Heaven nor bad enough to be condemned to Hell. Purgatory is their last chance to set themselves right before their final sentencing. But as the sheriff tells Sonny, Refuge is a place of hard rules: no cussing, no fighting, no rioting, no stealing, no violent outbursts no matter what the provocation -- and one of the sheriff's friends finds out tragically just what the penalty for breaking those rules is.
Blackjack Britton and his gang see Refuge as a place to cut loose and raise all kinds of mayhem, and for a while the sheriff tries to deal with the situation through polite admonitions. But the sheriff and his friends realize that some evil is too entrenched to be dealt with by patience and docility, and sometimes one must resort to extreme measures, if not for his own benefit, then for the good of the people he must protect. And who knows, maybe at times giving evil people a taste of their own medicine is justified. As a wily old stagecoach driver observes, "The Creator may be tough, but He ain't blind."
Uli Edel's direction and Gordon T. Dawson's script lift the movie beyond what might have been a banal western into the truly sublime, helped by a superb cast that includes Sam Shepard as Wild Bill Hickock, Eric Roberts in what may be his finest performance as Blackjack Britton, Randy Quaid as Doc Holliday, Donnie Wahlberg as Billy the Kid, J.D. Souther as Jesse James, Brad Rowe as Sonny, and Peter Stormare as Blackjack's henchman and Sonny's evil uncle Cavin Guthrie. It's a perfect little gem of a western, of the kind they don't make any more, with the added treat of a tender love story running through it all.
Judy Lind
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