Cowboy Up

Cowboy Up is a 2001 film directed by Xavier Koller. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Marcus Thomas, Molly Ringwald, and Daryl Hannah. It won the Crystal Heart Award at the 2001 Heartland Film Festival.

At the championship rodeo in Las Vegas, Ely, having ended his relationship with Celia, draws Hanks unridden and greatly feared bull Zapata and asks for Hanks help. Hank tells Ely to let go of the past memories he has being carrying around his entire life, and gives Ely the address of their fathers house in Las Vegas. Ely meets his father, but his father does not recognize Ely and thinks he is a rodeo reporter, but Ely says he is just a bull rider. Ely realizes his father is not the hero he has idolized.Ely successfully rides Zapata, but is injured in the process, Hank rushes to save Ely from Zapata, but is killed when Zapata crushes his chest. When the Braxton ranch hand and family friend Joe Russell Means brings Zapata back to the Braxton ranch, Rose grabs a shotgun and almost shoots Zapata in her grief over Hanks death, but Joe and Ely talk her down. They say they will shoot Zapata, but Ely remembers Hanks pride in the bull and shoots into the air as Zapata calmly walks into the pasture as Joe tells Ely that Hank would not have shot Zapata. ........

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