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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HBO HOME VIDEO
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780783114996
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 6305504024
Label: Hbo Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundSpanishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
MPN: HBOD91574D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 31, 1999
Running Time: 116 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 17, 1999
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
WHEN WEALTHY HENRY BALLARD SETS UP A TOLL GATE AND TAKES TWO OF MYRL REDDING'S HORSES IN LIEU OF PAYMENT, REDDING IS ENRAGED. BUT WHEN THOSE HORSES ARE STARVED AND BEATEN ALMOST TO DEATH, HE DEMANDS JUSTICE. SO BEGINS A PERSONAL FEUD THAT BECOMES A WAR, A WAR THAT BECOMES A MANHUNT AND A TRIAL THAT WILL LEAD TO JUSTICE
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The Jack Bull was produced for and premiered on HBO, but it's easily the most respectable job that feature director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, WarGames) has done in the past two decades. The title refers not to a piece of livestock but a metaphorical Jack Russell terrier that, once it's annoyed enough to close its jaws on something, will hang on to the point of death.
That would be Myrl Redding (John Cusack), a horse-breeder of limited means but a deeply entrenched sense of justice. His independence galls Henry Ballard (L.Q. Jones), the crusty land baron out to set his brand on most of the countryside. Ballard insults and cheats Redding several times over, and his men beat Redding's horse trainer and friend, an Indian (Rodney A. Grant). When Redding seeks redress from the law, its agents can't be bothered (the local magistrate is in Ballard's pocket). So Redding musters a vigilante army to enforce his own law.
Scratch this handsome but rigorously unromanticized Western--fully an hour passes without a shot being fired--and you find the classic Heinrich von Kleist book Michael Kohlhaas transposed to Wyoming Territory on the eve of statehood. The script--by the star-producer's dad, Dick Cusack--is sturdy and uncompromising, willing to engage the knotty ambiguities of embracing vigilantism even in a just cause. Badham's decision to treat the authorities (Scott Wilson, Jay O. Sanders, John Goodman) as period caricatures is regrettable. But John Cusack is solid as a figure of utterly matter-of-fact integrity. --Richard T. Jameson
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
John Cusack doest what he can and he does it good . So does John Goodman but both of them just look so far from true westerner's look . They're not Robert DUVALL or Sam ELLIOTT .
But I was so glad about good old L.Q. JONES who's a wild one !
Better get such a western than no western at all .
Thanks a lot .
Rating:  -
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie & actor. This is a good western.
Rating:  -
The Jack Bull is a complete surprise among westerns. John Cusack is brilliant as per usual. But the story transcends the genre. The story is powerful and surprising. I'm not going to say any more than that because you should just discover this work of art on its' own terms. Rent it. Watch it. Buy it. Watch it over and over. (BTW, John's Dad appears in this film. Pretty cool.)
Rating: -
Old style western. All about standing up for yourself.
And standing up for whats right. Not the best movie ever.
But you will enjoy it. John Goodman was great.
And John Cusack really made the part come to life.
Rating: -
I have this movie on VHS, but needed to upgrade to DVD. Yes, it is based on a true story. (But being a sap at heart,I am not happy with the ending of the story.) Excellent work from John Cusack, John Goodman and L.Q. Jones.
The tag line for this movie: THE JACK BULL: ALL MEN WANT JUSTICE...FEW ARE WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE,
Buy the video and a box of tissues. Enjoy! TERI
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