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Ride with the Devil

  • 19991999
  • RR
  • 2h 18m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
14K
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Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, Jewel, and Jeffrey Wright in Ride with the Devil (1999)
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During the American Civil War, two friends join the Bushwhackers, a militant group loyal to the Confederacy.During the American Civil War, two friends join the Bushwhackers, a militant group loyal to the Confederacy.During the American Civil War, two friends join the Bushwhackers, a militant group loyal to the Confederacy.
IMDb RATING
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14K
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  • Director
    • Ang Lee
  • Writers
    • Daniel Woodrell(novel "Woe to Live On")
    • James Schamus(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Tobey Maguire
    • Skeet Ulrich
    • Jewel
Top credits
  • Director
    • Ang Lee
  • Writers
    • Daniel Woodrell(novel "Woe to Live On")
    • James Schamus(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Tobey Maguire
    • Skeet Ulrich
    • Jewel
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    • 168User reviews
    • 73Critic reviews
    • 69Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Ride With The Devil
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    Tobey Maguire, Jewel, and Jeffrey Wright in Ride with the Devil (1999)
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    Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, Jewel, and Jeffrey Wright in Ride with the Devil (1999)
    Ride with the Devil (1999)
    Ride with the Devil (1999)
    Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, and Jewel in Ride with the Devil (1999)
    Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, and Jewel in Ride with the Devil (1999)
    Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, Jewel, and Jeffrey Wright in Ride with the Devil (1999)
    Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, Jewel, and Jeffrey Wright in Ride with the Devil (1999)
    Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, and Jewel in Ride with the Devil (1999)
    Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, Jewel, and Jeffrey Wright in Ride with the Devil (1999)
    Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire, Jewel, and Jeffrey Wright in Ride with the Devil (1999)

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    Tobey Maguire
    Tobey Maguire
    • Jake Roedelas Jake Roedel
    Skeet Ulrich
    Skeet Ulrich
    • Jack Bull Chilesas Jack Bull Chiles
    Jewel
    Jewel
    • Sue Lee Shelleyas Sue Lee Shelley
    Jeremy W. Auman
    • Guardas Guard
    Scott Sener
    Scott Sener
    • Guardas Guard
    • (as Scott C. Sener)
    Glenn Q. Pierce
    • Ministeras Minister
    Kathleen Warfel
    • Mrs. Chilesas Mrs. Chiles
    David Darlow
    • Asa Chilesas Asa Chiles
    Zan McLeod
    • Wedding Musician - Guitaras Wedding Musician - Guitar
    John Whelan
    • Wedding Musician - Accordionas Wedding Musician - Accordion
    Roger Landes
    • Wedding Musician - Mandolinas Wedding Musician - Mandolin
    Jeffrey Dover
    • Wedding Musician - Drummeras Wedding Musician - Drummer
    Tyler Johnson
    • Wedding Musician - Drummeras Wedding Musician - Drummer
    Kelly Werts
    • Wedding Musician - Fiddleas Wedding Musician - Fiddle
    Michael W. Nash
    • Horton Lee, Sr.as Horton Lee, Sr.
    John Judd
    John Judd
    • Otto Roedelas Otto Roedel
    Don Shanks
    Don Shanks
    • Georgeas George
    Jay Thorson
    • Tedas Ted
    • Director
      • Ang Lee
    • Writers
      • Daniel Woodrell(novel "Woe to Live On")
      • James Schamus(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      According to Jewel, director Ang Lee cast her as Sue mainly because of her crooked teeth, which he thought looked like the teeth a poor woman living in the 1860s would have.
    • Goofs
      When Jake is preparing to go to bed after his marriage and is talking with Daniel Holt he removes his left boot three times.
    • Quotes

      Mr. Evans: You ever been to Lawrence KS young man?

      Jack Bull Chiles: [scoffs] No, I reckon not Mr. Evans. I don't believe I'd be too welcome in Lawrence.

      Mr. Evans: I didn't think so. Before this war began, my business took me there often. As I saw those northerners build that town, I witnessed the seeds of our destruction being sown.

      Jack Bull Chiles: The foundin' of that town was truly the beginnin' of the Yankee invasion.

      Mr. Evans: I'm not speakin' of numbers, nor even abolitionist trouble makin'. It was the schoolhouse. Before they built their church, even, they built that schoolhouse. And they let in every tailor's son... and every farmer's daughter in that country.

      Jack Bull Chiles: Spellin' won't help you hold a plow any firmer. Or a gun either.

      Mr. Evans: No, it won't Mr. Chiles. But my point is merely that they rounded every pup up into that schoolhouse because they fancied that everyone should think and talk the same free-thinkin' way they do with no regard to station, custom, propriety. And that is why they will win. Because they believe everyone should live and think just like them. And we shall lose because we don't care one way or another how they live. We just worry about ourselves.

      Jack Bull Chiles: Are you sayin', sir, that we fight for nothin'?

      Mr. Evans: Far from it, Mr. Chiles. You fight for everything that we ever had, as did my son. It's just that... we don't have it anymore.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Sweet November/Recess: School's Out/Down to Earth/Faithless/Yi Yi (2001)
    • Soundtracks
      Miss McLeod's Reel
      Traditional

      Performed by John Whelan, Kelly Werts, Roger Landes, and Jeffrey Dover (as Jeff Dover)

      Produced by Alex Steyermark

      With thanks to Connie Dover

    User reviews168

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    What the Movie Meant to Me
    My great-grandfather J.W. Daugherty was a very young teenager during the civil war in Missouri. While still twelve he was put to work as a mule-skinner by one of the "black-flag" bands of bushwackers around Cedar County, in southern Missouri. He later mastered the use of the six-shooter, and rode with Quantrill. He claimed to have ridden with Jesse and Frank James during and after the war, but every man of his generation made the same claim. Were all the claims true, it would probably be about fifty thousand in all who rode with the James boys.

    J.W. claimed not to have been present during the burning of Lawrence, but so did everybody else. With so many thousand occupied in riding with the brothers James, it is passing strange that so few managed to be present during the actual burning of Lawrence, the single most important action of the Quantrill band.

    I am, incidentally, named after Lawrence, that appellation being my first name.

    J.W. claimed it was the James brothers who invented the idea of gripping the reins in their teeth while firing both revolvers, thereby availing oneself of a full twelve rounds in flight. J.W. ended up being the champion fiddler of Missouri, losing that title only when jealous rivals shut him out of the fiddling contests because he could read music.

    Another great-grandfather of mine was James Quinn, a young captain of the Union calvery. This was a Missouri militia unit, but militias on the border often saw more action that regular units back east. His job was to guard the railroads from the "highway agents" who even then were perfecting the feat of robbing the trains of yankee gold sent south for payroll.

    James and J.W. were supposed to have been on opposite sides during the Battle of Wilson's Creek, but it is impossible to know for sure. I have copies of Union orders for Captain James Quinn, having to do with the bandits operating in southern Missouri.

    This film, RIDE WITH THE DEVIL, is one of the truly great American films, and the only one that even begins to get close to the feeling of the border wars, the bushwacking, the betrayals, and the split families. In Missouri, the Civil War was hell on earth, breaking every family apart at least once.

    Toby McGuire is overwhelming in his grasp of the teenage border warrior who has known nothing else but killing, and who finally decides to make a new life in California. Jewel is astonishing as the young survivor widowed twice, but full of life and a desire to live it to the fullest.

    The historical details are almost always spot on, and the faces of the men and women are disturbingly like what they must have been in those terrible days.

    But finally, it is the script that is almost unbelievable in its power. Even when one or two words are wrong, the scriptwriter manages to somehow capture the mood and the rhythms of 19th-century speech in that part of the country, in all its humor and deep fatalism and courtesy--and yes, its cruelty too.

    This is the first work of art that made me feel something close to what my great-grandfathers must have gone through. They left many stories and written records behind, but such autobiographies conceal as much as they reveal, especially about the violence and its traumatizing effects of the young males who experienced it.

    I am grateful to the makers of this film, the script-writer, the author of the original book WOE TO LIVE ON, the actors and others who created RIDE WITH THE DEVIL and somehow managed to make it such a stunning work of art. To them I am thankful for bringing me closer to ancestors who made me what I am; and who--for better or worse--made this country what it is.

    Lawrence Swaim
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    • lswaim
    • Jul 3, 2004

    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 5, 1999 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Civil War
    • Filming locations
      • Lexington, Missouri, USA
    • Production companies
      • Universal Pictures
      • Good Machine
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $38,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $635,096
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $64,159
      • Nov 28, 1999
    • Gross worldwide
      • $635,096
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 18 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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