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 enlarge | Director: Ang Lee
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid, Valerie Planche
Studio: Universal
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1115 reviews
Sales Rank: 3138
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 135 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD26315D
UPC: 025192631528
EAN: 0025192631528
ASIN: B00005JOFQ
Theatrical Release Date: December 16, 2005
Release Date: April 4, 2006
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Condition: Shipped from Providence, RI 11/18
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 Breaking My Spirit Mountain September 20, 2008
Dean G. Ehlers (New Mexico)
3 out of 14 found this review helpful
It is with great reluctance that I write this review. I have waiting and soul searching long and hard to find the appopriate words to fit. I anticipated this movie with great enthusiasm as it was heralded as the next best thing since the wheel all over hollywood. When the reviews came in I was pushed even further in my reverie. Then came the nominations, and I was certain this was 'the one.' I was sadly incorrect in my assumption. This picture is well acted and the cinematography is breath taking. However, it is only a reminder that gay people never get a happy ending in hollywood and even has the nerve to go way beyond that. (Tip: If you have not seen this picture stop reading now as I will reveal the ending.) Ang Lee is a very creative director and Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are both extremely good actors. Let me get that out of the way right now. There is a line in a movie called "The Boys In The Band" that states 'not all faggots get bumped off at the end of the story.' Unfortunately that is not the case here. Although this is my opinion, the money spent on this disaster could very well have been put to better use. There is no reason whatsoever the lead character has to be brutally murdered in such a violent fasion. Nor was there a reason the scene had to be so long and graphic! There is an entire generation of young people that left the theater or removed this DVD from their home systems thinking this was status quo. That gay people DO always get killed violently, or worse, deserve it. It saddens my heart to think that somewhere a teenager who does not know any better has begun to beleive it! I realize this picture is depicting an era of time where things like this actually did happen. We have, however, come a long way since then and opinions have changed dramatically. We are no longer categorized as sick twisted individuals who must come to a brutal violent ending. There was a simple fix to this: Jakes character could easily have moved to another state and the two men just not see each other anymore. Not in Hollywood dear. It seems the powers that be insisted on the murder, and that is what you are left with. What a tragedy. I lived through the violent years of being gay myself, and am very proud of the struggles and progress we have made. This picture has thrown the gay rights movement back thirty years. The reason I am writing this review is because many people beleive what they read or see or hear. It is with my sincerest hope that this may help someone realize.....it isn't always like it happens in plays or in this case a hollywood movie. There is more to life. I have since thrown out my DVD and the book for fear if I donate it to a library or sell it, it would do more harm than good. Perhaps someday Hollywood will get this right......It just wasn't with this one.
 True Lies September 18, 2008
zooni (long beach ,ca)
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
I had a feeling I wasn't going to like this movie. I loved the cinematography and I thought Heath Ledger's performance was the most genuine, believable and less restrained out of the two. Jake Gyeggenhal's performance seemed rehearsed and not from the heart. It was the first time I noticed Heath Ledger was a very soulful person, I could tell by his performance. The problem I had with the movie is the characters. They both led double lives and were I'm assuming, "bisexual". I live the gay lifestyle and let me tell you there is nothing worse than a man trying to come off as straight when he is totally gay, especially "cowboys"! They knew what they really wanted, yet they deceived woman in the process and had kids no less. I'm sorry but in my book, that's called BEING PHONY, and is also counter-productive for the gay community. I don't care where they lived or what time this story took place in (the early 60's). They could have moved to New York or West Hollywood, they had resources back then. Don't tell me they didn't know anything about it, that's why the Jack character went all the way down to Mexico to get it. He knew where to get it. It's these type of people who ruin it for REAL homosexuals. they give us a bad name and they confuse everybody in the process. It would have been better if Jack was the true homosexual instead of making them both bisexual. I liked the story of "Boy's Don't Cry" better. At least Hillary Swank's character knew what she wanted and went to no lenths to become a boy to avoid all this confusion and blurred lines of sexuality. In my own oppinion, it's these white cowboys who need to stop playing games and represent. Confused individuals are ironically back in the closet again and it's time for another generation to learn AGAIN how to love themselves and live their authentic lives. It can be no other way. The consequences of deceiving people about your lifestyle have great reprocussions later on in life as this movie demonstrates. Gay people need to be proud of who they are.
 one of my favorites September 16, 2008
S. Demers (Tucson AZ)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
this is by far one of my favorite movies of all time. truly one of the most beautifully haunting love stories ever brought to the screen. usually i hate cheesy romances and love stories, but this is nothing of the sort- the actors do a superb job of capturing the conflicting emotions of being in love with someone that society deems unnatural or a crime, and the heart-wrenching angst that they feel is beautifully conveyed through their actions and expressions. i would highly recommend this film to anyone- i can watch it over and over and every time it makes me cry thinking about a) how difficult it was to be a gay man in a small town back in the 60s and how many people suffered because of that, and b) sadly how this is still true for many individuals growing up in closed-minded or strictly religious communities
 Consider the character September 12, 2008
KYMitch (KY)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I think I've reviewed this elsewhere, but I have to address the countless idiotic comments that Ledger couldn't be understood. His character was a man who has realized he is the embodiment of what his father taught him was the worst thing in life. In his innermost self, he knows awful truth. With it goes the thought that he doesn't deserve to live. With that goes the thought that nothing he could say could be worth hearing, therefore Ennis' speech is sotto voce, halting and painful. If you can't get this, turn the damn film off your machine and watch Song of the South (if you can find it).
Horrid September 8, 2008
3 out of 16 found this review helpful
It is incumbent upon all good critics to be honest about possible biases, so here goes. When I first read E. Annie Proulx's short story collection Close Range, I knew Brokeback Mountain was, by far, the worst of the stories in her very erratic collection, and a really bad story, period. Not because it had gay characters, but because the whole book is a long string of Western stereotypes and caricatures. Reading the tale, it was quite obvious that Proulx has probably never met a gay person, much less a gay cowboy, in her entire life.
However, after recently viewing the film that beat it out for the Oscar, Crash- a horrendous film, if there ever was one, I was prepared to concede that there was no possible way Brokeback Mountain, which I doubted could even be a passable film, could sink as low as Crash. After all, Crash crammed a dozen or so PC tales into its nightmare, whereas this film was only gonna force feed a viewer one PC tale. So buffered, I had made plans to begin my review of this film with something admitting the above, like, `Yes, Brokeback Mountain is better than Crash, but chlamydia is better than AIDS, so what's the point?' But, I now again have to rewrite how I approach dissecting this film, for, as I set forth to watch Ang Lee's latest film, I was unprepared for just how interminably dull and poorly written and acted this film was.
Yes, it's terminally PC, and no, it's not a love story, any more than the addle-minded and obnoxious young boob lovers in Titanic were in love. It's a tale about, let's face it, two horny guys who like branding each other in the wild. And yes, there is great scenery. This film trumps Crash cinematographically in every way. But, Crash sped through its many tales and characters so quickly that it was more like a music video, and, as a consequence, it was like a quick bug that, once you let out its last bad remnant, the fever lifted within minutes. Brokeback Mountain is like a festering herpes sore that will take a week or two to go away, but you just know it's gonna recur and damn your sleeping hours every now and then.
The story of the film is so familiar that to reiterate it seems a waste of space.... this is an incredibly dull, trite, tendentious, and tedious film, whose two leads are deceitful and thoroughly despicable losers whom even the film knows are not worth the time in developing, especially when the `message' is there to sell it. As proof of the ignoble nature of the leads, Ennis even mumbles to Jack, `Because of you, I'm nowhere,' blaming everyone but himself for his own shallow and insidious misery. This sort of bad writing, and dubious moralizing, makes Brokeback Mountain every bit as bad a film as its music video-like Oscar-winning rival, Crash.
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