RThe Claim

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Play Time: 120 mins
Drama, Romance, Western
The Claim

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)
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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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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Wuchak

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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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