The Far Side of Jericho (2006)

Director:

Tim Hunter

Writers (WGA):

Rob Sullivan (written by) and
James Crumley (written by)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

Three women. One treasure. Lots of bad guys.

Plot:

Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recently hanged...

Plot Keywords:

Posse | Gagged And Bound | Ghost | Hanging | Crooked Sheriff

Cast

Suzanne Andrews	...	Maxine Thornton
Judith Burnett	...	Claire Thornton
Lissa Negrin	...	Bridget Thornton
Patrick Bergin	...	Jake
Lawrence Pressman	...	Van Damm
James Gammon	...	The Preacher
John Diehl	...	Cash Thornton
C. Thomas Howell	...	Little Jemmy Thornton
Jason Connery	...	John
Bill Doyle	...	David
Zachary Ray Sherman	...	The Kid
Tim DeKay	...	The Stranger
Constance Forslund	...	Madame de Boks
Vanessa Zima	...	Greta Van Dam
John Ericson	...	Charlie

MPAA:

Rated R for violence including a rape, and for language.

Runtime:

USA:99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:M | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

Bonanza Creek Ranch - 15 Bonanza Creek Lane, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Company:

Further Productions

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Con trails seen in the sky several times during the movie.

Quotes:

[Maxine confronts two posse members who are whipping Claire]
Maxine: You got one chance to put it down!
[one posse member attempts to draw his gun and Maxine guns him down]
Crooked posse member: I think I'm going to believe you... bitch.
Maxine: Make that Mrs. Thornton... and let's see how fast you get disarm, disrobe and disappear.

Soundtrack:

Belle Starr

Wow. I didn't know it could get this bad.

Between the horrible acting, with apparent symptoms of low-grade voice-immodulation, and an extremely lacking story line, this film goes nowhere pretty quickly.

I have to say that I was surprised that the acting could seem so unnatural. The lines were delivered as if they were read by a monotone second grader off of a hard-to-read cue card. The action was anything but. The musical score was non-existent. The make-up was done by someone trying to imitate Adam Ant. They should have hired Adam Ant instead, as the video for Stand and Deliver at least had intentional humor.

I doubt anyone will read this review before renting, and thus this will merely be preaching to a choir for people visiting this page. Hopefully, someone will read the back of the DVD before renting. I didn't. It contains this gem: "the woman must find the courage to trust, care, and kill for one another". When there are only two sentences, you would think someone could take the time to check the grammar. Maybe the person writing the description was trying to warn us in a stealthy fashion not to rent this.