Ride With the Devil
- Original title
- Ride With the Devil
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 145 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- James Schamus. Novel: Daniel Woodrell
- Cast
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- Tobey Maguire
- Skeet Ulrich
- Jewel Kilcher
- Jeffrey Wright
- Tom Wilkinson
- Jim Caviezel
- Simon Baker
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
- Mark Ruffalo
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Western. Romance. Drama. War | Friendship. American Civil War. 19th Century
- Synopsis
- Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Missouri when the Civil War starts. Women and Blacks have few rights. Jack Bull's dad is killed by Union soldiers, so the young men join the Bushwhackers, irregulars loyal to the South. One is a Black man, Daniel Holt, beholden to the man who bought his freedom. They skirmish then spend long hours hiding. Sue Lee, a young widow, brings them food. She and Jack Bull become lovers, and when he's grievously wounded, Jake escorts her south to a safe farm. The Bushwhackers, led by men set on revenge, make a raid into Kansas. At 19, Jake is ill at ease with war. As his friends die one after another, he must decide where honor lies.
- Critics' reviews
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"For fans of Westerns, the film may have particular appeal"
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"Politically astute, visually breathtaking but emotionally inert."
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"Lee has made a brutal but sensitively observed film about the fringes of the Civil War"
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"In its quiet way, Ride With the Devil is terrific"
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