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Wyatt Earp (1994)

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Reviews Counted:25

Fresh:11

Rotten:14

Average Rating:5.4/10

Runtime: 3 hrs 32 mins

Genre: Westerns

Synopsis: Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K.... Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, to his becoming a rigid, by-the-book sheriff. Also dramatized are Earp's relationships with his brothers and their wives, and with loyal friend Doc Holliday, who is dying of tuberculosis. [More]

Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey

Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon, Michael Madsen, Catherine O'Hara, Bill Pullman, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Sizemore, Mare Winningham, JoBeth Williams

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Screenwriter: Dan Gordon

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May 2, 2006

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  • Wyatt Earp
  • Kevin Costner plays the most famous lawman ever to stride the Wild West. In a gritty, complex portrayal hailed as a "classic American performance" (Bob Campbell, Newhouse Newspapers), Academy Award winner Costner (Dances with Wolves, The Bodyguard) plays the man who became a myth in acclaimed director Lawrence Kasdan's (The Big Chill, Silverado) epic, action-filled saga.
  • Gene Hackman, an Oscar winner for Unforgiven, as Wyatt's iron-willed father, and Dennis Quaid (The Big Easy, The Right Stuff) as Earp's deadly best friend Doc Holliday add power to this mammoth, hard-hitting Western. From Wichita to Dodge City to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt Earp is a thrilling journey of romance, adventure and desperate, heroic action.
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    03/26/09
    Todd McCarthy
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    Variety
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    Though handsome to look at (cinematography is by Owen Roizman), the movie is overlong, stately, and too detailed for its own good; director Kasdan claims his version if more accurate, which may be true, but it doesn't make for a good picture.

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    12/21/06
    Emanuel Levy
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    01/26/06
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    A great Western that was unfairly disparaged back in 1994. The authentic Wyatt Earp is actually a much-better film than the pulpier, more-popular Tombstone.

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    01/25/06
    Chuck O'Leary
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    Fantastica Daily

    No review available.

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    09/17/05
    Michael Dequina
    Michael Dequina
    TheMovieReport.com

    Costner's still shouting, but it's hard to hear him from all the way back there in 1940.

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    07/27/04
    Walter Chaw
    Walter Chaw
    Film Freak Central

    ...hiding in this three-hour-plus extravaganza is a good two-hour movie. Too bad it's so hard to find.

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    06/01/04
    John J. Puccio
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    01/05/04
    Greg Maki
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    09/05/03
    Carol Cling
    Carol Cling
    Las Vegas Review-Journal

    Well-meaning western yarn starring Costner in the title role but it's too slow-moving and uneven to digest as anything riveting regarding the Wild West. Kasdan's Wyatt Earp definitely ends up shoots blanks

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    05/31/03
    Frank Ochieng
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    TheWorldJournal.com

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    05/20/03
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    05/20/03
    Susan Tavernetti
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    No review available.

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    02/10/03
    Shannon J. Harvey
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    Sunday Times (Australia)

    Bloated and unexciting, but Quaid is tremendous

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    01/05/03
    James Sanford
    James Sanford
    Kalamazoo Gazette

    Turgid and painfully poker-faced, though Dennis Quaid's Doc Holliday is as good as anyone's

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    12/30/02
    Rob Vaux
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    Flipside Movie Emporium

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    11/15/02
    Brian J. Arthurs
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    Beach Reporter (Southern California)

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    10/03/02
    Philip Martin
    Philip Martin
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    "Tombstone" did it better, but

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    09/20/02
    Clint Morris
    Clint Morris
    Moviehole

    A parabolic sagebrush saga about this legendary figure in the Wild West.

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    08/20/02
    Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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