The Claim
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- Synopsis
- One man's small empire threatens to collapse under the weight of his greed and deceit in this drama that transplants the story of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge to 19th century America....
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- Starring
- Peter Mullan, Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley
- Director(s)
- Michael Winterbottom
- Distributor(s)
- MGM/UA
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 120 min.
Critic Reviews
Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites
Stark, haunting, epic, and mournful, The Claim is a mountain of a film.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
Parsimonious with its plot, which is revealed on a need-to-know basis. At first, we're not even sure who is who; dialogue is half-heard, references are unclear, the townspeople know things we discover only gradually.Read the full review
Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites
Gives off the same vapor of impending tragedy—of a fate neither just nor unjust but ineffably, wrenchingly right.Read the full review
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