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Angelica Houston is marvelous as Calamity Jane as is Melanie Griffith as a real life Brothel owner...Sam Elliott plays Wild Bill Hickcock as a charming rogue. His characterization makes sense when you realize Hickok died a young man and probably didn't have a chance to grow old to maybe find out who he really was... It's an interesting take on the character, but to me the revelatory performances,in this film are Jack Palance and Tracy Walter... I could watch them all day as old men who loved the West and its freedom. You can absolutely feel it when they start to yearn for the old days when Buffalo and Beaver were abundant. Somehow they make me yearn right along with them. Great great actors.

I laughed out loud this movie. Love the premise. It's something fun. I understand there's an infamous film on which this was based but this was done by talented people having a good time,. Good comedy in the vein of Rustler's Rhapsody by way of Peter O'Toole's, The Stuntman.

Quite a few laugh out loud moments with some poignancy. Tommy Lee Jones needs to make another western Robert De Niro Morgan Freeman, and the young lady playing the director are terrific. The premise is a little flimsy, but really who cares....it's a chance for some terrific performance performers to get together and entertain us for an evening much like Noises Off and My Favorite Year do. Make no mistake. Those are superior vehicles. Still, this is a lot of fun grab the popcorn. But one main negative to me is the language is too much for the premise, but I was willing to put up with it because I was enjoying the ride.

Number one I disagree with several of the reviewers here who say that Larry Bishop is miscast. He, Eric LaFleur and Michael Madsen are really really good and I agree with another brilliant reviewer who says the characters are literally in hell.

I would've never thought of that but I believe it's the correct interpretation...the hedonism, the revenge being taken with joy, the deceit and agony. All the characters feel make me think the other reviewer is exactly on it. It does have a spaghetti Western feel, and yet these characters are even more lost and misogynistic Then those in the Eastwood movies ... unlike other reviewers, I think this is a well written and smart script , it's fun at times and certainly has had me thinking about it well into the evening, after watching it this afternoon. Recommended? Certainly not for the faint of heart.