Brokeback Mountain

2005, 134 minutes, Digital, R
USA, Canada

Presented by: Johns Hopkins Film Society

Director: Ang Lee

Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Michelle Williams, and Anne Hathaway

Distributor: Focus Features

Join the JHU Film Society for the 2019 Johns Hopkins Film Fest! This year’s theme is NEO-WESTERN. The Society is thrilled to be showing a personal favorite to kick off the festival. This event is FREE for JHU affiliates and standard pricing for public attendees.

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee comes an epic American love story, Brokeback Mountain, the winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture at 2005’s Venice International Film Festival. The film is based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx and adapted for the screen by the team of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men – a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy – who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys, and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love.

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Winner of three Academy Awards