Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Release date: 2006-01-13
Country: USA|Canada
Language: English|Spanish
Director: Ang Lee
Production Co: Focus Features, River Road Entertainment, Alberta Film Entertainment
Genre: Romance, Drama
Rating: 7.7/10
Length: 2h 14min

Storyline

Two young men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, meet when they get a job as sheep herders on Brokeback Mountain. They are at first strangers, then they become friends. Throughout the weeks, they grow closer as they learn more about each other. One night, after some heavy drinking, they find a deeper connection. They then indulge in a blissful romance for the rest of the summer. Unable to deal with their feelings for each other, they part ways at the end of the summer. Four years go by, and they each settle down, Ennis in Wyoming with his wife and two girls, and Jack in Texas with his wife and son. Still longing for each other, they meet back up, and are faced with the fact that they need each other. They undeniably need each other, and unsure of what to do, they start a series of "fishing trips", in order to spend time together. The relationship struggles on for years until tragedy strikes.

Plot Keywords

gay relationship, homosexuality, ranch, cowboy, gay romance, closeted homosexual, male nudity, based on short story, rodeo, mountain, husband wife relationship, skinny dipping, sheep, breaking the fourth wall, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, title spoken by character, male frontal nudity, gay sex, male rear nudity, loss of virginity

Short Review

Brokeback Mountain is in no rush. Its emotional impact builds slowly, its rhythms in tune with the countryside--the rugged grandeur of the mountains; the arid, bleak vistas of backwater Western towns.