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Old man Ewing (Jason Robards) owns a ranch right next to the ranch of Ella (Jane Fonda). This is a source of two problems: Ewing wants to gobble up most of the land around the two ranches and also wan... read more read more...ts Ella's ranch; secondly, when Ella was too young to know better, she went to bed with the man, which, many years later, she considers to have been a grievous error on her part. A third problem arises when oil companies begin pressuring both of them to allow drilling on their land, and Ewing won't allow it -- on his or anyone else's land. Before long, war-veteran Frank (James Caan) enters Ella's life and helps her fight to save her land and her sanity, with added assistance from Dodger (Richard Farnsworth), an old local who knows the score. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 59 min.

Directed by: Alan J. Pakula

Release Date: October 25, 1978

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DVD Release Date: September 4, 2001

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Fernando F. Croce
November 17, 2009
Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

Pakula approaches the open spaces of the frontier to escape from urban claustrophobia and instead finds reflections of it Full Review

Tim Brayton
October 15, 2009
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

A good-enough Western that I can only really recommend to genre fans, or people who have some particularly strong affection for one or another of the actors. Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
January 22, 2006
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Desperately tries to become monumental in the manner of a John Ford metaphorical Western. Full Review

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
January 24, 2004
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

Richard Farnsworth shines with his portrait of the archetypal cowboy--crafty, self-reliant and industrious. Full Review

July 22, 2008
Variety

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Chuck O'Leary
October 21, 2005
Chuck O'Leary, Fantastica Daily

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Emanuel Levy
June 25, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Philip Martin
June 17, 2005
Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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June 24, 2006
Time Out

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May 24, 2003
Film4

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