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Silverado

Silverado (1985)

⭐ 7.2 | PG-13 | 133 minutes
DVD (2 discs + 1 features ) Blu-ray (1 discs ) Digital ✓
Genre: Western
Aspect Ratio: Wide
Sound: DD 5.1
Academy Awards: 2 Nominations

Synopsis

Out on the frontier, the friends you ride with can matter more than where you're headed. Lawrence Kasdan's "Silverado" set out to be a good old-fashioned Western, but the director of "The Big Chill" couldn't resist a hip, self-aware streak, giving it a funky tone all its own - rousing one minute, winking the next. Four cowpokes, played by Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover and a rowdy young Kevin Costner, converge on the little frontier town of Silverado. Kline makes a distinctly modern kind of Western hero, and Kasdan dresses up the fairly familiar action with sharp dialogue and a parade of quirky supporting players, including John Cleese as a sheriff who seems to have stepped straight out of a Monty Python sketch and into an Old West saloon. Bruce Broughton's score is a real throwback to the glory days of thundering Western themes. One thing's for sure: you'll have a lot more fun with this one than with Kasdan and Costner's later Western, "Wyatt Earp."

Cast

John Cleese
Rosanna Arquette
Kevin Kline
Kevin Costner
Scott Glenn
Danny Glover
Linda Hunt

Director

Lawrence Kasdan

Awards & Nominations

  • Oscar Nominee: Best Music, Original Music Score
  • Oscar Nominee: Best Sound

Keywords

Classics Western

Technical Specifications

Audio Languages

English, French, German

Subtitle Languages

Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Turkish

Special Features

  • Audio commentary
  • Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
  • Interviews
  • 16-Page Movie Scrapbook
  • Vintage Silverado Playing Cards
  • A Return to Silverado with Kevin Costner: Exclusive New Featurette
  • Along The Silverado Trail: A Western Historians' Commentary
  • The Making-Of Silverado: In-depth documentary featuring interviews with the filmmakers, cast and crew
  • "A History Of Western Shootouts" Hosted by John Cleese
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