Storyline
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Directors
Cast
Lochlyn Munro, Clint Eastwood, Richard Harris, Morgan Freeman, Frances Fisher, John Pyper-Ferguson, David Mucci, Anna Levine, Larry Joshua, Saul Rubinek, Anthony James, Gene Hackman, Jaimz Woolvett, Rob Campbell, Ron White, Jefferson Mappin, Jeremy Ratchford, Philip Maurice Hayes, Tara Frederick, Beverley Elliott, Liisa Repo-Martell, Shane Meier, Robert Koons, Mina E. Mina, Walter Marsh, Larry Reese, Blair Haynes, Frank C. Turner, Ben Cardinal, Michael Charrois, Michael Maurer, George Orrison, Greg Goossen
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Reviews
100
Simultaneously heroic and nihilistic, reeking of myth but modern as they come, it is a Western for those who know and chrish the form, a film that resonates with the spirit of films past while staking out a territory quite its own. [7 Aug 1992]
100
Variety
Clint Eastwood has crafted a tense, hard-edged, superbly dramatic yarn that is also an exceedingly intelligent meditation on the West, its myths and its heroes.
100
The cast is universally strong. Hackman, Freeman and Harris don't do anything they haven't done before, but the roles suit their personae to a degree where they approach archetypal status.
100
This dark, melancholic film is a reminder -- never more necessary than now -- of what the American cinema is capable of, in the way of expressing a mature, morally complex and challenging view of the world. [7 Aug 1992]
100
Unforgiven is the most provocative western of Eastwood's career, and with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris along for the ride, it's also the most potently acted.
