Unforgiven (1992)
 


Genre:Western
Release: 1992
Director:Clint Eastwood
Distributor:Warner Home Video
 
Starring:
Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
 
Synopsis
Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's
1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking
on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's
decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face,
Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by fierce Strawberry Alice (Frances Fisher),
take justice into their own hands and put a $1000 bounty on the lives of the
perpetrators. Notorious outlaw-turned-hog farmer William Munny (Eastwood)
is sought out by neophyte gunslinger the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) to
go with him to Big Whiskey and collect the bounty. While Munny insists,
"I ain't like that no more," he needs the bounty money for his children, and
the two men convince Munny's clean-living comrade Ned Logan (Morgan
Freeman) to join them in righting a wrong done to a woman. Little Bill
(Oscar-winner Gene Hackman), however, has no intention of letting any bounty
hunters impinge on his iron-clad authority. When pompous gunman English
Bob (Richard Harris) arrives in Big Whiskey with pulp biographer W.W.
Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek) in tow, Little Bill beats Bob senseless and
promises to tell Beauchamp the real story about violent frontier life and
justice. But when Munny, the true unwritten legend, comes to town, everyone
soon learns a harsh lesson about the price of vindictive bloodshed and the
malleability of ideas like "justice." "I don't deserve this," pleads Little Bill.
"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it," growls Munny, simultaneously summing
up the insanity of western violence and the legacy of Eastwood's Man With
No Name. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide


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