Purgatory

TV Movie
1999
TV-14
1h 34m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

4.5K

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Dark Fantasy Drama Fantasy Western

An outlaw band rides into a town that is actually Purgatory, between Heaven and Hell.An outlaw band rides into a town that is actually Purgatory, between Heaven and Hell.An outlaw band rides into a town that is actually Purgatory, between Heaven and Hell.

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

4.5K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

4,748

705

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 wins & 6 nominations total

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Trivia
All of the Purgatory residents' assumed names are nature-based: Forest, Glen, Ivy, Rose, Woods, Lamb.

Goofs
Doc Holliday was indeed a dentist and not a physician. In the Old West, however, remote towns often had to use what they had for medical care. Physicians were scarce, so if a town did not have a doctor they would go to the dentist, veterinarian, or even barber for care. Also sometimes physicians would be called upon to care for sick animals if needed. It is therefore not that far of a reach that a dentist would serve as the town doctor.

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Coachman: The Creator's tough, but he ain't blind.

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Featured review

7/10

Entertaining Western Fantasy

Purgatory plays like a ninety-four episode of "The Twilight Zone", that despite a few predictable twists, is still a lot of fun to watch and a cut above the usual made-for-television western of the last twenty years or so.

Production values are good and so is the familiar cast of character actors, led by baddies Eric Roberts and Peter Stormare, with Sam Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Donnie Walberg, and R.G. Armstrong in his last western appearance so far. They all do a great job, with Roberts and Stormare playing it nice and rowdy.

Interestingly enough, co-stars R.G.Armstrong and John Dennis Johnston appeared together eighteen years earlier in the southern-fried horror flick The Beast Within.