The Claim

"Everything has a price."

Jul 27 2001 R 2h 0m
Drama, Romance, Western

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

Plot

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scout the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

Written by

Frank Cottrell Boyce, Thomas Hardy

Directed by

Michael Winterbottom

Cast

Wes Bentley, Peter Mullan, Ron Anderson

Crew

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Production Countries

United Kingdom, Canada, France

Production Companies

Arts Council of England, Alliance Atlantis Communications, Pathé Pictures International, DB Entertainment, BBC, Canal+, Grosvenor Park Productions, Revolution Films

Languages

English

Awards

1 win & 10 nominations

Trailers
The Claim (2000) Trailer
Scores
# of Votes
6,897
Average Rating
6.3 out of 10
Metascore
62
Popularity
NA