Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Brokeback Mountain (2005) Country: USA, Canada Release Year: 2005 Director: Ang Lee Writer: Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana Language: English Genre: Drama, Romance Runtime: 123 min Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal Anne Hathaway,  Michelle Williams Studio: Focus Features, Paramount Pictures Alberta Film Entertainment River Road Entertainment Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/ Available on:

Ang Lee's adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's story Brokeback Mountain stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as young cowboys named Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar. Each of them is hired to corral sheep on the title location and they soon bond very closely. Their platonic relationship explodes into a physical one, but eventually the two are separated when their job comes to an end. Although the two follow different life paths -- one becoming a father of two and the other marrying into a successful business -- they have a reunion years later. Each is affected profoundly by the rekindling of their old feelings for each other. Those feelings lead each to consider what continuing their hidden relationship would cost them. The screenplay was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.