Western · United States of America · 1991 · 1h 46m

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Director

Cast

Scott Glenn as H.D. Dalton Kate Capshaw as Jolie Ben Johnson as Jesse Dalton Tess Harper as Cheryl Gary Busey as Clint Hornby Balthazar Getty as Jud

Crew

Bernd Heinl — Director of Photography Dennis M. Hill — Editor James Horner — Original Music Composer Joel Don Humphreys — Writer E.K. Gaylord II — Producer Martin Poll — Producer

Synopsis

H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.

Mood & Themes

modern west

Key Collaborators

Stuart Rosenberg Director Bernd Heinl Director of Photography Dennis M. Hill Editor James Horner Original Music Composer Joel Don Humphreys Writer E.K. Gaylord II Producer Martin Poll Producer Rudy Dillon Costume Design

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