Two decades after buying the mine stake which earned him a fortune, Daniel Dillon tries to make up for the mistake on which his town was built. He exchanged his dying wife and daughter for the original deeds to the gold claim. So he tries to remarry her, and bring his family back together. A haunting pioneer tale transposing Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor Of Casterbridge to the American West., A businessman in an 1860s Sierra Nevada mining town is forced to confront his guilt over a 20-year-old secret., THE CLAIM is an epic story of love, passion and redemption set against the winter landscape of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the making of California. Dillon is a pioneer who defied the harsh winter in search of rumored gold. Having amassed unimaginable riches, he runs a thriving mining town called Kingdom Come. But the blind ambition and greed that drove him to succeed finally catch up to him with the arrival of three strangers. Daglish, a surveyor looking to expand the Central Pacific Railroad into Kingdom Come, threatens the future of the town. And, two women from Dillon’s past hold a secret that could be his undoing., This captivating Western adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel The Mayor of Casterbridge stars Peter Mullan as the potentate of an 1860s mining town who’s forced to confront his guilt over a dark 20-year-old secret. Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley. Directed by Michael Winterbottom., Thomas Hardy’s tale The Mayor of Casterbridge is transposed to a prospecting town in 19th-century California where the scene is set for a western drama of avarice and guile. One man runs most of the town and paid a high price for his success – he swapped his wife and daughter for a gold mine. Twenty years later his empire is threatened when a surveyor for a railroad company arrives and his family reappears., The 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy becomes this Western fable in the hands of director Michael Winterbottom. Peter Mullan stars as Daniel Dillon, the richest man in the 1869 California boomtown of Kingdom Come. Twenty years earlier, Dillon struck a Faustian bargain with a mysterious stranger, selling his wife Elena (Nastassja Kinski) and baby daughter Hope (Sarah Polley) for the claim to a gold mine. Using his resources wisely, Dillon has used his mine profits to purchase most of the important revenue-generating institutions in the area, including the hotel, bank, and liquor store. Now the gold rush is over and Dillon, who’s involved with exotic local brothel owner and barkeep Lucia (Milla Jovovich), is attempting without success to dishonestly influence railroad surveyor Donald Dalglish (Wes Bentley). Dalglish’s company may run tracks through Kingdom Come, ensuring the future of the town and of Dillon’s wealth. Dillon’s plans are threatened, however, with the arrival in town of two newcomers possessing the secrets of his past: the long-lost Elena, who’s ailing, and Hope, who falls in love with Dalglish. In an effort to create a realistic-looking Rocky Mountain gold rush town, Winterbottom and production designer Mark Tildesley constructed an exact replica of a period village from archival photographs., Michael Winterbottom’s epic film, loosely based on Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge , sees Peter Mullan as an Irish immigrant who has risen to run the gold-mining town of Kingdom Come in California. But his reign is threatened by Wes Bentley, a railroad surveyor who plans to put a line through the town, threatening Mullan’s power. Meanwhile, the arrival of the mysterious Nastassja Kinski and her daughter Sarah Polley threaten to unleash dark secrets from his past…, Thomas Hardy’s tale ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ is transposed to a prospecting town in 19th-century California where the scene is set for a western drama of avarice and guile. One man runs most of the town and paid a high price for his success – he swapped his wife and daughter for a gold mine. Twenty years later his empire is threatened when a surveyor for a railroad company arrives and his family reappears.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “The Claim ” ?
A: The main cast includes Wes Bentley,Milla Jovovich,Nastassja Kinski,Sarah Polley,Peter Mullan,Shirley Henderson,Julian Richings,Sean McGinley,Randy Birch,Tom McCamus,Frank Zotter,Artur Ciastkowski,Barry Ward,Karolina Müller,David LeReaney,Valerie Planche,Grant Linneberg,Jimmy Herman,Marie Brassard,Phillipa Peak,Kate Hennig,Fernando Davalos,Marc Hollogne,Ron Anderson,Marty Antonini,Linda Lau,Royal Sproule,Tim Koetting,Billy Morton,Duncan Fraser,Landon Hicks,Matthew Johnson,Janelle Loughlin,Linda Miller,Karen Minish,Trevor Allan Davies,John Goulart,David M. Thompson,Paul Healy,Jennifer Bannister,Kirk Jarrett,Bryon Callaghan,Joanne Hansen,Ken Rempel,Frank Cottrell Boyce,Alwin Kuchler,Alexis Lloyd,Michael Katz,Gordon Davis,Douglas Berquist,Ian Wilson,Suzanne Smith,James Paradis,Andrea Calderwood,Martin F. Katz,Trevor Waite,Mark Shivas,Marty Katz,Mark Tildesley,Kerry Barden,Wendy Brazington,Billy Hopkins.
Q: When Did the “The Claim” Released?
A: The Movie “The Claim” originally aired on 2000-12-29 and released in the year of 2000.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “The Claim” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “The Claim” ?
A: “The Claim” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
