Butcher's Crossing (2022) (original) (raw)

A frontier epic about an Ivy League drop-out as he travels to the Colorado wilderness, where he joins a team of buffalo hunters on a journey that puts his life and sanity at risk. Based on the highly acclaimed novel by John Williams.

A frontier epic about an Ivy League drop-out as he travels to the Colorado wilderness, where he joins a team of buffalo hunters on a journey that puts his life and sanity at risk. Based on the highly acclaimed novel by John Williams. (less)

Director: Gabe Polsky
Writer: Gabe Polsky
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Fred Hechinger, Xander Berkeley, Jeremy Bobb, Rachel Keller, Paul Raci
Producers: Gabe Polsky, Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers

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Review by Brian Orndorf, October 18, 2023

7 / 10

Director Gabe Polsky achieved some critical acclaim in recent years as a documentarian, exploring the oddity and askew glory of Russian sporting achievements in 2014�s �Red Army� and 2019�s �Red Penguins.� He returns to dramatic interests with �Butcher�s Crossing,� adapting a 1960 novel by John Edward Williams, which examines the hardship of the frontier experience in 1874. It�s a tale of survival and mental illness, detailing a young man�s odyssey into a world he doesn�t understand, learning more about the ugliness of humanity in the process. Polsky hopes to work in an understanding of bison ...read more...

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