The Cowboy Way

"How the East was won."

Jun 3 1994 PG-13 1h 42m
Action, Comedy, Crime

Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.

Plot

Buddies Pepper Lewis (Woody Harrelson) and Sonny Gilstrap (Kiefer Sutherland) who are championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar Joaquín Martínez after he disappears in New York City to pick up his daughter, Theresa (Cara Buono). When Pepper and Sonny find that neither is anywhere to be found, they go about the wacky adventure of finding Nacho and Theresa, and in the process, test the foundation of their friendship. Along the way, they find themselves entwined in the inner workings of a New York sweat shop where Theresa has been enslaved after traveling to the U.S.A. from Cuba. Going about doing things in a cowboy way, Pepper and Sonny put their small town skills to the test in a big city kind of way and rescue Theresa from the thugs.

Written by

Robert C. Thompson, William D. Wittliff

Directed by

Gregg Champion

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
9,776
Average Rating
6 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA