Ang Lee’s adaptation of E. Annie Proulx’s story Brokeback Mountain stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as young cowboys named Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar.
Each of them is hired to corral sheep on the title location and they soon bond very closely. Their platonic relationship explodes into a physical one, but eventually the two are separated when their job comes to an end.
Although the two follow different life paths – one becoming a father of two and the other marrying into a successful business – they have a reunion years later. Each is affected profoundly by the rekindling of their old feelings for each other.
Those feelings lead each to consider what continuing their hidden relationship would cost them. The screenplay was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Kate Mara, Scott Michael Campbell
Venice (Competition): Golden Lion, Toronto (Masters), São Paulo, Rotterdam, Queer Lisboa (Panorama)
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Title: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Directed by: Ang Lee
Date of birth: 23 October 1954, Chaochou, Pingtung, Taiwan
Writing credits:
Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
Music by: Gustavo Santaolalla
Country: United States | Canada
Language: English
Color: Color
Runtime: 134 min.