Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil is an intimate, harrowing look at a country torn in half, an American Civil War film from a daringly unorthodox perspective.
Set during 1862’s Kansas-Missouri border war, the film stars Tobey Maguire as Jake, who joins his friend Jack Bull (Skeet Ulrich) with the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after the latter’s father is killed by marauding Jayhawkers.
Yet Ride with the Devil is also the story of their unusual ally Holt (an astonishing Jeffrey Wright), who’s fighting for the south despite being a former slave.
A rumination on identity and loyalty, both political and personal, Ride with the Devil is a provocative challenge to preconceptions about America’s bloodiest conflict. It is presented here for the first time in its complete director’s cut. --Mubi
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Simon Baker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, James Caviezel, Jewel, Tom Guiry, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Mailer
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Title: Ride with the Devil (1999)
Directed by: Ang Lee
Date of birth: 23 October 1954, Chaochou, Pingtung, Taiwan
Writing credits:
James Schamus, Daniel Woodrell
Music by: Mychael Danna
Country: United States
Language: English
Color: Color
Runtime: 148 min.