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Unforgiven

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Original title

Unforgiven

Year

1992

Running time

126 min.

Country

United States

Director

Clint Eastwood

Screenwriter

David Webb Peoples

Cast

Music

Lennie Niehaus

Cinematography

Jack N. Green

Producer

Warner Bros., Malpaso Productions

Genre

Western. Drama | Revenge. Old Age / Elderly

Synopsis

Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), a sadistic, dictatorial sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, doling out his own brand of due process as he sees fit. When he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel, one of whom has been slashed by a client, the women hire Bill Munny (Eastwood), a reformed gunslinger, to gain vengeance. However, Munny must contend with his new moral code in the face of revisiting the life he left behind.

Rankings Position

#2 Best Westerns in the history of film
#8 Best Movies of the '90s
#38 Best US Movies of all time
#43 Best Drama Movies
#59 Best Movies in the history of film

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Awards: 1992: 4 Oscar: Best Movie, Director, Supporting Actor (Hackman), Editing. 9 Nominations

1992: 2 Golden Globes: Best Director (Eastwood), Supporting Actor (Hackman). 4 Nominations

1992: BAFTA Awards: Best Sup. Actor (Hackman). 6 Nominations, including Best Film

1992: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman). 4 Nominations

1992: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Best Director

1992: American Cinema Editors: Best Edited Feature Film (Joel Cox)

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Critics' reviews

"It shouldn't be missed by anyone with a taste for Eastwood's typically slanted morality. It's the actor/director's best movie -- and the best Western by anybody -- in over 20 years (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Mike Clark: USA Today
"In three decades of climbing into the saddle, Eastwood has never ridden so tall"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"Simultaneously heroic and nihilistic (...) a film that resonates with the spirit of films past while staking out a territory quite its own"

Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
"A tense, hard-edged, superbly dramatic yarn that is also an exceedingly intelligent meditation on the West, its myths and its heroes"

Todd McCarthy: Variety
"Though the movie is riddled with memorable scenes of violence, its pace is slow -- too slow. It has an epic sprawl, but it's not an epic. It's more like a bloated fairy tale"

Mick LaSalle: SFGATE
"That implacable moral balance, in which good eventually silences evil, is at the heart of the Western, and Eastwood is not shy about saying so (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"The cast is splendid (...) This is [Eastwood's] richest, most satisfying performance"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
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