Butcher’s Crossing (2023, D: Polsky) S: Nicolas Cage
09-18-23 | 05:52 PM
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Butcher’s Crossing (2023, D: Polsky) S: Nicolas Cage
Butcher’s Crossing is coming to the big screen.
See Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage in #ButchersCrossingMovie, coming to select movie theaters on October 20 – watch the trailer now.
Academy Award™ winner Nicolas Cage (1996, Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in a gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone’s resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife’s edge.
Director: Gabe Polsky
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Fred Hechinger, Xander Berkeley, Rachel Keller, with Jeremy Bobb and Paul Raci
Screenplay by: Gabe Polsky & Liam Satre Meloy
Executive Producers: William V. Bromiley, Shanan Becker, Jonathan Saba, Ness Saban, Richard J. Berthy, Jane Sinisi, Alan Polsky, Peter Touche, Christelle Conan, Andrea Scarso, Mike Runagall, Gursharn Khaira
Producers: Gabe Polsky, Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers, Will Clarke, Andy Mayson
Production Company: Saban Films, Altitude Film Entertainment, Ingenious Media, Phiphen Pictures
Rating: Rated R for language, some violence/bloody images and brief sexual content
See Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage in #ButchersCrossingMovie, coming to select movie theaters on October 20 – watch the trailer now.
Academy Award™ winner Nicolas Cage (1996, Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in a gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone’s resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife’s edge.
Director: Gabe Polsky
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Fred Hechinger, Xander Berkeley, Rachel Keller, with Jeremy Bobb and Paul Raci
Screenplay by: Gabe Polsky & Liam Satre Meloy
Executive Producers: William V. Bromiley, Shanan Becker, Jonathan Saba, Ness Saban, Richard J. Berthy, Jane Sinisi, Alan Polsky, Peter Touche, Christelle Conan, Andrea Scarso, Mike Runagall, Gursharn Khaira
Producers: Gabe Polsky, Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers, Will Clarke, Andy Mayson
Production Company: Saban Films, Altitude Film Entertainment, Ingenious Media, Phiphen Pictures
Rating: Rated R for language, some violence/bloody images and brief sexual content
09-18-23 | 07:43 PM
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Re: Butcher’s Crossing (2023, D: Polsky) S: Nicolas Cage
“Saban Films” is always the kiss of death for a quality movie but screw it, I’m always down to watch Nicolas Cage. Cage hamming it up as a grizzled mountain man is enough to convince me.
09-18-23 | 11:48 PM
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Re: Butcher’s Crossing (2023, D: Polsky) S: Nicolas Cage
This looks surprisingly good. I'm definitely interested.
09-19-23 | 08:31 PM
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Re: Butcher’s Crossing (2023, D: Polsky) S: Nicolas Cage
I was chatting with my mother-in-law tonight and she mentioned this movie. Apparently her cousin is the original author of the book this movie is based on (John Williams. No the other John Williams).
10-25-23 | 01:56 PM
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Re: Butcher’s Crossing (2023, D: Polsky) S: Nicolas Cage
This wasn't much more than ok. Perfectly competent filmmaking with some nice location cinematography and solid performances. It hits most of the familiar beats for the genre, but it never really ratchets the tension up particularly high. Part of this is the movie's struggle to convey the passage of time, which is a central element to the story.
As for Cage, this is a surprisingly middle of the road performance. There are one of two moments where it feels like he might go into high gear, but he never gets there. It's a perfectly acceptable performance, and would have been fine in a better movie, but this one needed a little extra sizzle.
As for Cage, this is a surprisingly middle of the road performance. There are one of two moments where it feels like he might go into high gear, but he never gets there. It's a perfectly acceptable performance, and would have been fine in a better movie, but this one needed a little extra sizzle.
03-15-24 | 09:32 AM
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Re: Butcher’s Crossing (2023, D: Polsky) S: Nicolas Cage
Now on Hulu.
03-15-24 | 01:31 PM
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Re: Butcher’s Crossing (2023, D: Polsky) S: Nicolas Cage
I saw this. pretty good movie imo. I like Nic Cage in most everything, but this was a raw, especially cowboy gruff type of movie. not exactly a traditional western, but pretty effective nonetheless.
04-01-24 | 08:43 PM
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The poor buffalo suffered enough in this country and then this movie came along.
Nothing really special and a weird way to send the message of buffalo conservation with them getting slaughtered and cut up throughout the movie.
Nothing really special and a weird way to send the message of buffalo conservation with them getting slaughtered and cut up throughout the movie.
