Brokeback Mountain (2005) movie poster

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

"Love is a force of nature."
ThumbScore
👍 88%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 88%
DramaRomance

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Runtime
2h 14m
Rated
R
Country
Canada, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.8/10 (7,452 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Metacritic
87

Cast

Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar · 75% avg
Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist · 70% avg
Michelle Williams as Alma Beers · 72% avg
Anne Hathaway as Lureen Newsome · 71% avg
Randy Quaid as Joe Aguirre · 75% avg
Linda Cardellini as Cassie Cartwright · 70% avg
Anna Faris as Lashawn Malone · 70% avg
David Harbour as Randall Malone · 72% avg

Is Brokeback Mountain good?

Yes. 88% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 88%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#322 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#11 / 180 · 2005
Rank among its director's films
#2 / 9 · Ang Lee

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American romantic drama directed by Ang Lee, based on Annie Proulx's 1997 short story. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal star as Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys who develop a sexual and emotional relationship while working together herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming in 1963. Over the following twenty years, both men marry women and build separate lives, yet their forbidden connection persists through secret reunions on supposed "fishing trips" that become the only space where they can be their authentic selves, while the closeted nature of their love corrodes their marriages and personal happiness.

Heath Ledger's performance as Ennis — a man whose inarticulateness about his own emotions was the tragic consequence of a society that had taught him to suppress his deepest self — was a career-best achievement of devastating understatement. Ang Lee's direction treated the material with the same visual grandeur and emotional seriousness typically reserved for classical romance, making the deliberate artistic statement that this love story deserved the same cinematic respect as any heterosexual romance. Brokeback Mountain won three Academy Awards including Best Director and earned $178 million worldwide.

The film is widely credited with shifting cultural attitudes toward LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream cinema.

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