Rob Roy (1995 film)

Rob Roy is a 1995 adventure film directed by Michael CatonJones. Liam Neeson stars as Rob Roy MacGregor, an 18thcentury Scottish clan chief who battles with an unscrupulous nobleman in the Scottish Highlands. Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Brian Cox, and Jason Flemyng also star. Roth was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the amoral aristocrat Archibald Cunningham.

Alan MacDonald Eric Stoltz, MacGregors most trusted retainer, arrives and suspicious of Killearn, tells him that cash was not what was agreed. The factor tells MacDonald that Montrose ordered it. On his way home, MacDonald is ambushed and murdered by Cunningham, who steals the money and sinks MacDonalds corpse in Loch Lomond. Unable to pay his loan, MacGregor approaches Montrose and asks for time to find MacDonald and the money. Montrose promises to wipe the loan off his books, but only if MacGregor will testify falsely that John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll Andrew Keir, Montroses main rival, is a Jacobite. Considering this dishonorable, MacGregor refuses and an enraged Montrose vows to imprison him in the Tolbooth until the debt is paid. Instead, MacGregor briefly takes Cunningham hostage and flees. Seething with hatred, Montrose seizes MacGregors land as collateral, declares him an outlaw, and orders Cunningham to bring him in broken, but alive.While MacGregor is in hiding, Cunningham arrives at his croft with a posse of redcoats. As the soldiers slaughter MacGregors cattle herds and burn his croft, Cunningham brutally rapes MacGregors wife Mary Jessica Lange. When Mary tells Cunningham that her husband will come after him, she is horrified to realize that Cunningham is counting on it. As the soldiers leave, Alasdair, MacGregors brother, arrives and realizes that Mary has just been raped. Alasdair vows revenge but a traumatized Mary swears him to secrecy. ........

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