The Claim
A 2000 British Western/romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is loosely based on the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman. It was filmed in the vicinity of Calgary, Alberta. The film's tagline is: "Everything has a price."
Main
cast
Actor Role
Peter Mullan Daniel Dillon
Milla Jovovich Lucia
Wes
Bentley Donald Dalglish
Nastassja Kinski Elena Burn/Elena Dillon
Sarah
Polley Hope Burn
Julian Richings Bellanger
Sean McGinley Sweetley
Duncan
Frasier Crocker
Filming had to be halted when director Michael
Winterbottom got frostbite in his ears.
This is the second film that Michael
Winterbottom had directed from a novel by Thomas Hardy; the first was the romance
film Jude (1996). The Claim, however, seems to have very little in common with
the plot in Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge".
Plot
summary
In 1867, Daniel Dillon is an Irish immigrant who settled in California
during the Gold Rush of '49 and has done quite well for himself. Dillon owns nearly
every business of consequence in the town of Kingdom Come; if someone wants to
dig for gold, rent a room, open a bank account, or even order a drink, they have
to go to Dillon to do it. One of the few profitable enterprises in town that he
doesn't own is the brothel, which is operated by Lucia, Dillon's Portuguese lover.
But Dillon sees that his hold on the town is threatened when Dalglish arrives
in Kingdom Come.
Donald Dalglish is a surveyor with the Central Pacific
Railroad, which wants to put a train through Kingdom Come. Dillon believes that
Dalglish's plans could pull control of Kingdom Come out of his hands, and he's
willing to go to any lengths to see that this doesn't happen. Arriving in town
the same time as Dalglish are two women, the beautiful but ailing Elena Burn and
her lovely teenage daughter Hope; their presence is deeply troubling for Dillon,
for they are the keys to a dark secret Dillon has kept from the people of Kingdom
Come for nearly twenty years.
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