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Seraphim Falls
Seraphim Falls is a 2007 American revisionist Western film directed by television producer and director David Von Ancken in his only feature film. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Von Ancken and Abby Everett Jaques. The fictional story focuses on a bounty hunt for a Union soldier by a Confederate colonel following the American Civil War in the late 1860s. Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Michael Wincott, Tom Noonan, and Ed Lauter star in principal roles. Seraphim Falls explores civil topics, such as violence, human survival and war.
The film was produced by the motion picture studio of Icon Productions. It was commercially distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Destination Films theatrically, and by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for home media. The film score was composed by musician Harry Gregson-Williams, although a soundtrack version for the motion picture was not released to the public.
Seraphim Falls premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and was released to theatres in limited release in the United States on January 26, 2007, grossing $418,296 in domestic ticket sales. It earned an additional $801,762 in box office business overseas for a combined worldwide total of $1,220,058 in revenue. The film generally received positive critical reviews before its initial screening in cinemas.
Notable similarities have been found between the film and the 1976 revisionist western, The Outlaw Josey Wales directed by Clint Eastwood.
In 1868, within the Ruby Mountains, Gideon roasts hare over an open fire. Gunshots ring out and he is shot in the left arm. He grabs what he can and races down the mountain. His attackers emerge to inspect his campsite. Colonel Morsman Carver, a former Confederate officer, is accompanied by Pope, Hayes, Parsons and the Kid. Carver has hired the others to hunt down Gideon.
Gideon removes the bullet with a Bowie knife while hiding from Carver. Leaving a fire burning to attract the posse, he kills Pope with his knife then ventures into the wilderness again. When Gideon attempts to steal a horse from a ranch, a young woman named Charlotte catches him. She then helps him after seeing he is injured, dressing his wound and her family let him sleep overnight in their cabin. He buys their horse and leaves before daybreak.
Carver's posse interrogates the ranch family, and upon finding Gideon's gold coins are about to conclude that they sold him a horse when the rancher's son Nathaniel confesses that he stole the coins while Gideon slept.
As the group of men approach Gideon's trail, he ambushes them with a bear trap impaling the Kid, whom Carver then shoots out of mercy. Later, discovering a dead bank robber Gideon had killed earlier in self-defense, Parsons leaves the others as the dead man's bounty exceeds what Carver is offering to capture Gideon. As Parsons is preparing to load the body onto a horse to take it to Carson City for the reward, Carver shoots the horse – which he declares is his – leaving Parsons to walk the 30 miles back to town carrying the body.
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Seraphim Falls
Seraphim Falls is a 2007 American revisionist Western film directed by television producer and director David Von Ancken in his only feature film. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Von Ancken and Abby Everett Jaques. The fictional story focuses on a bounty hunt for a Union soldier by a Confederate colonel following the American Civil War in the late 1860s. Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Michael Wincott, Tom Noonan, and Ed Lauter star in principal roles. Seraphim Falls explores civil topics, such as violence, human survival and war.
The film was produced by the motion picture studio of Icon Productions. It was commercially distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Destination Films theatrically, and by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for home media. The film score was composed by musician Harry Gregson-Williams, although a soundtrack version for the motion picture was not released to the public.
Seraphim Falls premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and was released to theatres in limited release in the United States on January 26, 2007, grossing $418,296 in domestic ticket sales. It earned an additional $801,762 in box office business overseas for a combined worldwide total of $1,220,058 in revenue. The film generally received positive critical reviews before its initial screening in cinemas.
Notable similarities have been found between the film and the 1976 revisionist western, The Outlaw Josey Wales directed by Clint Eastwood.
In 1868, within the Ruby Mountains, Gideon roasts hare over an open fire. Gunshots ring out and he is shot in the left arm. He grabs what he can and races down the mountain. His attackers emerge to inspect his campsite. Colonel Morsman Carver, a former Confederate officer, is accompanied by Pope, Hayes, Parsons and the Kid. Carver has hired the others to hunt down Gideon.
Gideon removes the bullet with a Bowie knife while hiding from Carver. Leaving a fire burning to attract the posse, he kills Pope with his knife then ventures into the wilderness again. When Gideon attempts to steal a horse from a ranch, a young woman named Charlotte catches him. She then helps him after seeing he is injured, dressing his wound and her family let him sleep overnight in their cabin. He buys their horse and leaves before daybreak.
Carver's posse interrogates the ranch family, and upon finding Gideon's gold coins are about to conclude that they sold him a horse when the rancher's son Nathaniel confesses that he stole the coins while Gideon slept.
As the group of men approach Gideon's trail, he ambushes them with a bear trap impaling the Kid, whom Carver then shoots out of mercy. Later, discovering a dead bank robber Gideon had killed earlier in self-defense, Parsons leaves the others as the dead man's bounty exceeds what Carver is offering to capture Gideon. As Parsons is preparing to load the body onto a horse to take it to Carson City for the reward, Carver shoots the horse – which he declares is his – leaving Parsons to walk the 30 miles back to town carrying the body.