The Hi Lo Country

The HiLo Country is a 1998 American Westerndrama film directed by Stephen Frears, starring Billy Crudup, Penlope Cruz, Woody Harrelson, Cole Hauser, Sam Elliott, Patricia Arquette, Enrique Castillo, and Katy Jurado. It is set in postWWII New Mexico and is based on the novel by Western author Max Evans.

Just after World War II best friends Big Boy Matson Woody Harrelson and Pete Calder Billy Crudup return home to find half of their town employed by cattle baron Jim Ed Love Sam Elliott. Hanging on to the mythic ideals of the American West Big Boy and Pete team up with an old time rancher Hoover Young James Gammon to raise cattle the cowboy way and life in HiLo, New Mexico becomes a volatile powder keg.The fuse is lit when Mona Patricia Arquette, the wife of Jim Eds foreman, begins a heated affair with Big Boy. Petes past longings for Mona resurface with his discovery of the affair and the bond of friendship becomes sorely tested. Ultimately, Pete and Big Boys friendship will be decided by the extent of their yearnings for the same woman, while HiLo awaits the outcome of the explosive runins between Jim Ed Love and two proud cowboys. ........

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