Appaloosa is a 2008 American Western film based on the 2005 novel of the same name by crime writer Robert B. Parker. The film was directed by Ed Harris and co-written by Harris and Robert Knott.
Appaloosa stars Harris alongside Viggo Mortensen. The film premiered in the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, was released in select cities on September 19, 2008 and expanded into wide-release on October 3, 2008.
Plot: 1882, New Mexico Territory. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are itinerant lawmen, hired by desperate towns as marshal and deputy. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg, a newly-arrived rancher with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen. Cole and Hitch contrive to arrest Bragg and bring him to trial, but hanging him proves difficult. Meanwhile, a widow has arrived in town, Allison French, pretty, refined, and good-natured. Virgil falls hard, and it seems mutual, but there may be more to Allie than meets the eye. Can friendship and skill with a gun overcome a pernicious villain and green-eyed jealousy?
Cast
* Viggo Mortensen – Everett Hitch
* Ed Harris – Virgil Cole
* Renée Zellweger – Allie French
* Jeremy Irons – Randall Bragg
* Lance Henriksen – Ring Shelton
* Timothy Spall – Phil Olson
* Ariadna Gil – Katie
* James Gammon – Earl May
* Gabriel Marantz – Joe Whittfield
Bob Harris, Ed Harris’s father, has a small role, as Judge Callison.
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