Movie
The Claim
Overview
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Details
- Release date
- 2000-12-29
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Western
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Revolution Films, Arts Council of England, Alliance Atlantis, DB Entertainment, Grosvenor Park Productions, United Artists, BBC Film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Pathé, StudioCanal
- Country
- United Kingdom, Canada, France, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Peter Mullan as Daniel Dillon
- Milla Jovovich as Lucia
- Wes Bentley as Donald Dalglish
- Nastassja Kinski as Elena Burn
- Sarah Polley as Hope Burn
- Shirley Henderson as Annie
- Julian Richings as Francis Bellanger
- Sean McGinley as Sweetley
- Tom McCamus as Burn
- Duncan Frasier as Crocker
- Barry Ward as Young Dillon
- Karolina Muller as Young Elena
Crew
- Michael Winterbottom - Director
- Frank Cottrell Boyce - Screenplay
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