Sweetgrass

Apr 22 2011 Unrated 1h 41m
Adventure, Documentary, Western

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

Plot

In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme north-west of the United States. It was a journey of almost three hundred kilometres through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges - a journey brimming with challenges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together; the panoramic high mountains are teeming with hungry wolves and grizzly bears.

Written by

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Directed by

Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Cast

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Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

SEL, Grasshopper Film

Languages

English

Awards

1 win & 10 nominations

Trailers
The Official Sweetgrass Trailer
Scores
# of Votes
1,166
Average Rating
6.8 out of 10
Metascore
80
Popularity
NA