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Purgatory (1999) -- An outlaw band rides into a town that is actually Purgatory, between Heaven and Hell.

Overview

User Rating:
6.6/10   1,569 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Gordon T. Dawson (written by)
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Release Date:
10 January 1999 (USA) more
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Plot:
An outlaw band rides into a town that is actually Purgatory, between Heaven and Hell. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 5 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Talkin' Westerns with A.C. Lyles
 (From The Hollywood Interview. 14 May 2009, 4:29 PM, PDT)

User Reviews:
A Good TV Movie. more (50 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Sam Shepard ... Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock

Eric Roberts ... Blackjack Britton

Randy Quaid ... Doc Woods / Doc Holliday

Peter Stormare ... Cavin Guthrie

Brad Rowe ... Leo 'Sonny' Dillard

Donnie Wahlberg ... Deputy Glen / Billy The Kid
J.D. Souther ... Brooks / Jesse James (as John David Souther)
Amelia Heinle ... Rose / Betty McCullough
Shannon Kenny ... Dolly Sloan / Ivy

John Dennis Johnston ... Lamb / 'Lefty' Slade
Saginaw Grant ... Gatekeeper
Richard Edson ... Euripides

Gregory Scott Cummins ... Knox
John Diehl ... Badger
R.G. Armstrong ... Coachman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Purgatory West of the Pecos (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
94 min
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
All of the Purgatory residents' assumed names are nature-based: Forest, Glen, Ivy, Rose, Woods, Lamb. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: In the final gunfight scenes, Rose is wearing a plastic hair clip. Plastic wasn't invented until 1907, more than 20 years after William Hickock was killed. more
Quotes:
Cavin Guthrie: I feel like I was eaten by a coyote and crapped off a cliff. more

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12 out of 15 people found the following review useful.
A Good TV Movie., 22 November 2000
6/10
Author: Alan Devine from Sheffield, England

This is pretty much a pleasant - albeit unspectacular - film. It is very watchable with a predictable fantasy theme running through it.

The theme of people realising that they are at some sort of halfway house between Heaven and Hell, awaiting divine judgement, is not new and has been well portrayed in earlier films. This film however, reworks the formula in a western setting. It is certainly watchable and is quite well made for a TV movie.

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