The Last Cowboy (TV 2003)After an eight year absence, a headstrong woman returns to her Texas home for her grandfather's funeral and locks horns with her father. Director:Joyce ChopraWriter:J.P. Martin |
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The Last Cowboy (TV 2003)After an eight year absence, a headstrong woman returns to her Texas home for her grandfather's funeral and locks horns with her father. Director:Joyce ChopraWriter:J.P. Martin |
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| Jennie Garth | ... |
Jacqueline 'Jake' Cooper
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| Lance Henriksen | ... | ||
| M.C. Gainey | ... |
Amos Russell
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| Bradley Cooper | ... | ||
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Dylan Wagner | ... |
Billy
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| Muse Watson | ... |
Otis Bertram
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| John Vargas | ... |
Robert Sanchez
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| Eugene Osment | ... |
Alex Kerwin
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| Kelly Connell | ... |
Jack Wainwright
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| Kim Robillard | ... |
Ira Collins
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Jack Lilley | ... |
Fuller
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| Lynn Wanlass | ... |
Irene
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| Katie Thatcher | ... |
Nurse
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Harrison Young | ... |
Preacher
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Ronn Iverson | ... |
Dabney
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John William 'Will' Cooper is a modern-day rancher, maintaining his ranch in hard times along with his friend and foreman Amos Russell. When Will's estranged daughter Jake returns to the ranch for her grandfather's funeral, father and daughter clash over how to run the ranch and over the death years before of Jake's mother, which she blames on Will. Crisis comes in the form of insurmountable debt, and it is only by working together that Will and Jake have any chance of saving their home and their family. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
I watched the TV movie The Last Cowboy with very few expectations and ended up unimpressed.
It is the usual stressful father/daughter relationship who find out that the need to come together through the tough circumstances, including the loss of his wife and her mother and the possible loss of his farm. Lance Henriksen (The Right Stuff, Millennium) and 90210 alum Jennie Garth play the bickering father and daughter. They do as good a job as the material given to them.
The actor who really impressed me was M.C. Gainey. Playing the farm foreman and friend of Henriksen's character and a middleman between the father and daughter, it was nice to see Gainey in a role where he is basically a nice guy. Because of his physical presence, he typically plays gruff, villainous rednecks, bikers or criminals. Sometimes they are all the same character. His appearances in movies like Con Air and Breakdown and his role in "The Last Cowboy" shows that Gainey can play different types of roles and do it well when casting directors give him a chance.