Wyatt Earp (1994)
 


Genres:Western,Drama
Release: 1994
Director:Lawrence Kasdan
Distributor:Warner Home Video
 
Starring:
Kevin Costner , Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
 
Synopsis
 Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, this epic version of the legendary western
sheriff-gunslinger's life story stars Kevin Costner as Earp, who lived from
1848 to 1929. Growing up on a farm in Iowa, Earp tries to run away to join
the Union Army in the Civil War, but he is turned away because of his youth.
Instead, he studies law and marries Urilla Sutherland (Annabeth Gish). But
Urilla dies of typhoid fever before they can have children. Earp grows
despondent and descends into drinking and petty thievery, but his father
Nicholas (Gene Hackman) finds him, sobers him up, and sets him straight.
Earp becomes a buffalo hunter and a close companion of Bat Masterson
(Tom Sizemore) and his brother Ed (Bill Pullman). With his brothers, Virgil
Michael Madsen) and Morgan (Linden Ashby), Earp sets out to clean up the
violence-plagued towns of the old West -- by using his own guns to settle
scores. Earp takes up with Mattie Blaylock (Mare Winningham), a drug addict
and prostitute, then discards her for actress Josie Marcus (Joanna Going). In
Tombstone, Arizona, the Earp brothers and their comrade Doc Holliday (Dennis Quaid),
who is plagued by tuberculosis and a compulsion for gambling, meet their match
in a ruthless gang led by Ike Clanton (Jeff Fahey). ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide 


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