The Claim

The Claim

Everything has a price.

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Release Date

12/29/2000

Runtime

120 mins

Overview

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$20,000,000

Revenue

$669,258

Homepage

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A lyrical, mournful reckoning with the cost of ambition and the inescapability of conscience. The film dwells in the dust and sorrow of a man watching his prosperity crumble as the past he bought his way out of comes to reclaim him.

Mood

MelancholicWistfulBittersweetContemplative

Themes

BetrayalFamilyRedemptionAmbition

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

PainterlyDesaturatedLong takes

Structure

Framed flashback

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