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.| Status: | Released (2000-12-29) |
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| Awards: | 1 win & 10 nominations |
| BoxOffice: | $669,258 |
| Screen: | Frank Cottrell Boyce, Thomas Hardy |
| Productions: | Revolution Films, Arts Council of England, Alliance Atlantis, DB Entertainment, Grosvenor Park Productions, United Artists, BBC Film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Pathé, StudioCanal |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom, Canada, France, United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 172: Michael Winterbottom - Director - Directing
- 31929: Thomas Hardy - Novel - Writing
- 26190: Frank Cottrell Boyce - Screenplay - Writing
- 28157: Trevor Waite - Editor - Editing
- 173: Andrew Eaton - Producer - Production
- 20462: Wendy Brazington - Casting - Production
- 1324920: Joanne Hansen - Costume Design - Costume & Make-Up
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Reviews
John Chard
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The Casterbridge Claim. "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" Michael Winterbottom directs what is in essence a Western version of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. It's Sierra Nevada, California, 1867 and the pioneer town of Kingdom Come i ....
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***The beginning and end of a boom town in the Sierra Nevadas*** During the California gold rush of 1849 a desperate man establishes a boom town in the Sierra Nevadas. Eighteen years later his abandoned wife & daughter (Nastassja Kinski & Sarah Polley) ride into town and turn his ....
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