Wyatt Earp (1994)

An epic (at least in length), personal telling of the life of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. This dark film traces the early development of his strong sense of family loyalty and follows his career as a marshal with his brothers and his friend Doc Holliday. Academy Award Nominations: Best Cinematography.

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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 hunte...
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r 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).
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Voor de jonge Wyatt Earp zijn familie, gerechtigheid en eerlijkheid de drie belangrijkste dingen in het leven. Dat heeft hij zo van zijn vader geleerd. Wyatt huwt met Urilla, zijn jeugdliefde, en gaat rechten studeren. Later vertrekt hij naar Wichita en daarna naar Dodge City. Daar krijgt hij de sheriffster opgespeld. Gelouterd door zijn avonturen en vastbesloten zijn leven toch een doel te geven, ontpopt Wyatt Earp zich in Dodge City tot een rechtvaardige maar harde hand van de wet. Maar na een tijdje wordt hij opnieuw rusteloos en ruilt samen met zijn broers en hun gezinnen Dodge City in voor Tombstone...

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