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Ride with the Devil

  • 1999
  • R
  • 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.

  • Director
    • Ang Lee
  • Writers
    • Daniel Woodrell
    • James Schamus
  • Stars
    • Tobey Maguire
    • Skeet Ulrich
    • Jewel
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    14K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ang Lee
    • Writers
      • Daniel Woodrell
      • James Schamus
    • Stars
      • Tobey Maguire
      • Skeet Ulrich
      • Jewel
    • 169User reviews
    • 76Critic reviews
    • 69Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win

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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)
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    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)
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    Tobey Maguire
    Tobey Maguire
    • Jake Roedel
    Skeet Ulrich
    Skeet Ulrich
    • Jack Bull Chiles
    Jewel
    Jewel
    • Sue Lee Shelley
    Jeremy W. Auman
    • Guard
    Scott Sener
    Scott Sener
    • Guard
    • (as Scott C. Sener)
    Glenn Q. Pierce
    • Minister
    Kathleen Warfel
    • Mrs. Chiles
    David Darlow
    • Asa Chiles
    Zan McLeod
    • Wedding Musician - Guitar
    John Whelan
    • Wedding Musician - Accordion
    Roger Landes
    • Wedding Musician - Mandolin
    Jeffrey Dover
    • Wedding Musician - Drummer
    Tyler Johnson
    • Wedding Musician - Drummer
    Kelly Werts
    • Wedding Musician - Fiddle
    Michael W. Nash
    • Horton Lee, Sr.
    John Judd
    John Judd
    • Otto Roedel
    Don Shanks
    Don Shanks
    • George
    Jay Thorson
    • Ted
    • Director
      • Ang Lee
    • Writers
      • Daniel Woodrell
      • James Schamus
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    Storyline

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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
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    • 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 reviews169

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    Featured review
    8/10
    Powerful, accurate and genuinely moving
    Taiwanese director Ang Lee, whose previous films include 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'The Ice Storm', turned to the American Civil War for his latest feature. Based on a novel by Daniel Woodrell, it follows the exploits of a group of Southern guerrillas, known as bushwhackers, as they fight their Northern equivalents, the jayhawkers in the backwater of Missouri.

    As one might expect, there is plenty of visceral action, but the focus is on the tension that the war put on the young men who fought it - many of whom were fighting against their former neighbours and even family. Jake Roedel (Tobey Maguire) is such a man, or rather, boy, as he is only seventeen when the war reaches Missouri. He is the son of a German immigrant, but instead of following his countrymen and becoming a Unionist, he joins his lifelong friend Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich) and rides with the bushwhackers. Despite a lack of acceptance because of his ancestry and an unwillingness to participate in the murder of unarmed Union men, he remains loyal to the cause. So does his friend Daniel Holt (Jeffrey Wright), a black slave freed by another bushwhacker and so fighting for the South.

    Lee handles the subject with aplomb, never rushing the deep introspection that the plot demands in favour of action and this lends the film a sense of the reality of war - long periods of boredom and waiting interposed with occasional flashes of intensely terrifying fighting. The action is unglamorised and admirably candid, recognising that both sides committed a great number of atrocities.

    The performances are superb, with Maguire and Wright both courageous and dignified. Up-and-coming Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is particularly chilling as a cold-blooded killer, while Skeet Ulrich is enjoyably suave and arrogant. Lee never flinches from the reality of war, but his actors do an admirable job of showing the good that comes from it - the growth of friendship, the demonstration of courage and, on a wider scale, the emancipation of oppressed peoples. Ride With the Devil is a beautiful and deeply compassionate film that regularly shocks but always moves the audience.
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    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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