by Jason Ankeny
synopsis
Novelist Larry McMurtry scripted this contemporary western, which examines cattle ranchers Hoyce and Bess Guthrie (Richard Crenna and Gena Rowlands) as they struggle to keep their marriage afloat after a power company offers to buy their land.
characteristics
- Crumbling Marriages
- Natural-resources
- Land
- Good-guy
- Marriage
- Values
- Ranch
- Family
- Self-discovery
- Ecologist
- Bickering
- Bad-guy
- Arguing
- Conflict
- Developer
