
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 scout 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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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 scout 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.
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| Salon.comCharles TaylorOne of those rare literary adaptations that finds its fidelity in freedom, that stands as both a fitting version of its source material and as its own creation. |
| L.A. WeeklyF. X. FeeneyA superb film by any measure, as deep and harsh as the sin Dillon committed to become great. |
| New York PostLou LumenickSadly the film is so elusive, so distant, that it never seems more than half-alive. |
| Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesThe characters in The Claim suffer under the weight of very big things -- betrayal, abandonment, disease, death -- but they do so quietly, stoically, until, by God, they just can't take it anymore. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertParsimonious with its plot, which is revealed on a need-to-know basis. At first, we're not even sure who is who; dialogue is half-heard, references are unclear, the townspeople know things we discover only gradually. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrA sleeper that's well worth hunting down. Its rewards sneak up on you, but then linger long afterwards. |
| Goatdog's MoviesMichael W. Phillips, Jr.At the center are the impeccable performances of all five leads. |
| SlateDavid EdelsteinGives off the same vapor of impending tragedy—of a fate neither just nor unjust but ineffably, wrenchingly right. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenA languorously muted, occasionally magnificent film. |
| IFilmDave WhiteIt's supposed to be about greed, revenge, forgiveness and love, but it's really just a muttering mess. |