Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky's epic frontier adventure, Butcher's Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man's relationship to his natural environment. A gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller, a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone's resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife's edge.
MPAA rating: R; for brief sexual content, some violence, bloody images, and language.|||adult
Saban Films, Altitude Film Entertainment and Ingenious Media present ; a Gabe Polsky production ; an Altitude Entertainment and Phiphen Pictures production ; a film by Gabe Polsky ; produced by Gabe Polsky, Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers, Will Clarke, Andy Mayson ; screenplay by Gabe Polsky & Liam Satre Meloy ; directed by Gabe Polsky.
Title from web page.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2022.
Wide screen (2.00:1).
Nicolas Cage, Fred Hechinger, Rachel Keller, Paul Raci, Xander Berkeley, Jeremy Bobb, Amber Rose Mason.
Music by Leo Birenberg ; edited by Nick Pezzillo ; director of photography, David Gallego.
DVD, region 1; anamorphic wide screen (2.00:1); 5.1 Dolby digital.
English dialogue; French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
