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Brokeback Mountain

Name: Brokeback Mountain
Genre: Romance, Drama, Western
Released: 2005
Duration: 134 min

2005Romance · Drama · Western134 min

5/5

Twenty years on, the shirts still do it. Should have won Best Picture.

The one that broke through, and broke everyone.

Our take

Two ranch hands in 1960s Wyoming spend one summer together and the next twenty years failing to have a life. Ang Lee shoots it as a western, which is exactly right — the landscape is enormous and the men are given almost no language, so everything has to happen in what they cannot say.

Heath Ledger’s performance is a masterclass in compression; Jack is the one who wants more and Ennis is the one who cannot, and the film is honest that this is a kind of violence too. It lost Best Picture to Crash, which remains the single most-cited grudge in queer film. The last shot, and the shirts in the closet, are why.

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Scores

Ours

Jibbi Score — 5 out of 5 rainbows. Twenty years on, the shirts still do it. Should have won Best Picture.

Also recorded

Rotten Tomatoes — 88%, as recorded on Wikidata — Rotten Tomatoes has no public API, so this is the openly licensed figure rather than a live reading.
TMDB — 7.8 out of 10 from 7,745 votes, refreshed daily.

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The plot, officially

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

Synopsis and poster via TMDB.