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The Newton Boys (1998) -- Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become a bank robbers...
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Claude Stanush (book)
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Release Date:
27 March 1998 (USA) more
Tagline:
History is about to catch up with America's most successful bank robbers. more
Plot:
Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes... more | add synopsis
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(9 articles)
Why Won't Anyone Make a Richard Linklater Film?
 (From Cinematical. 17 November 2009, 9:02 AM, PST)

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 (From EmpireOnline. 28 July 2009, 12:32 AM, PDT)

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Matthew McConaughey ... Willis Newton

Skeet Ulrich ... Joe Newton

Ethan Hawke ... Jess Newton

Gail Cronauer ... Ma Newton

Vincent D'Onofrio ... Dock Newton
Jena Karam ... Orphan Singer

Julianna Margulies ... Louise Brown
Casey McAuliffe ... Orphan Singer

Dwight Yoakam ... Brentwood Glasscock
Charles Gunning ... Slim
Regina Mae Matthews ... Orphan Fiddler
Becket Gremmels ... Lewis

Lew Temple ... Waiter
Glynn Williams ... Farmer Williams
Charles 'Chip' Bray ... Bank Teller
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence including bloody aftermath of a shooting, and for language.
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113 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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While on location for this project, Dwight Yoakam wrote the songs he used for the album "The Long Way Home". more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Brentwood and Joe watch Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924), in Canada, during what appears to be summer. Greed was not released until December of that year, and didn't see any wide release until late January of 1925. It's also doubtful that it would have made it to Canada any time before then. more
Quotes:
Willis Newton: Welcome to Omaha, boys! more
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MUCH BETTER THAN EXPECTED, 19 June 2002
Author: jmorrison-2 from Farmington Hills, MI

This movie was much better than I expected. Interesting true story told of a band of unusual bank robbers. Almost gentlemen bandits, if you will. McConnaughey, Ulrich, Hawke, and D'Onofrio do a great job with the brother's characters. The end credits are definitely worth watching this for.

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