Brokeback Mountain (DVD)

Jack Twist is a rodeo cowboy who goes in search of work and is sent up Brokeback Mountain with drifter Ennis Del Mar through the cold winter to herd sheep. When the cold winter gets too much for them, they bunk in the tent together for heat. Neither men are prepared at first for the twist that their relationship will take. They find themselves entangled in an emotional and forbidden sexual relationship that will stay with them through their adult lives. When the winter is over, the men go their seperate ways, get married and have kids. Jack continues to embrace that side of his sexuality on weekends away with Ennis. As the years pass and the weekends ...  Read the complete review

Apologies in advance for the length of the review, I was trying to cut bits out but it makes it difficult to do this wonderful movie justice! Arriving just in time for an Oscar nomination for its leading men, Ang Lee‘s intimate epic, “Brokeback Mountain” is the tale of forbidden love in the deep South with a twist…the love is between two men, living in a time and place where being gay is likely to have you lynched. Less of a gay cowboy movie and more of a universally resonant love story, Brokeback charts a relationship that lasts decades in an unchanging homophobic world. Two ranch hands fulfilling every stereotype known to cowboykind are hired ...  Read the complete review

Brokeback Mountain is based on a story by Annie Proulx. The screenplay is by Larry McMurtry and it was directed by Ang Lee. The film explores the clandestine loving and sexual relationship of two men over the course of three decades as they simultaneously continue heterosexual married family lives. Rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) meet for the first time on Brokeback Mountain were they have both been hired to herd sheep. It is on a cold winters night in the mountains that they are forced to share a tent and where their first unexpected sexual liaison takes place. Neither seem too sure of their newly discovered sexual relationship ...  Read the complete review

Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Brokeback Mountain as two strangers who are thrown together one summer in the 1960s when they are both given work as cowboys on a mountain. At first they are unsure of each other but gradually the hardship of being out in the wilderness forces them to bond and they become friends. And then, one night they become lovers, setting a course of events in place that would ultimately lead to tragedy. As always, I felt that Heath Ledger's acting was spot-on (though I could barely comprehend what he was saying) and Jake Gyllenhaal delivers a truly remarkable performance as a fervently homosexual trying to live as a heterosexual ...  Read the complete review

Brokeback Mountain is a rare mix of western and romance, with plenty of drama thrown in for good measure. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist, and the late Heath Ledger as Ennis del Mar, both looking for work in rural Wyoming in 1963. They meet when they are both assigned to the same job, working as shepherds up on Brokeback Mountain over the winter, and there is a chemistry between them from the beginning. Over their time on the mountain, they become closer, both physically and spiritually. This part of the film is idyllic - the scenery is beautiful, and the soft music and minimal dialogue draws you into their situation, and when the seasonal ...  Read the complete review