Title: 3:10 to Yuma
Year: 2007
Director: James Mangold
Writers: Halsted Welles, Michael Brandt & Derek Haas, based on the story by Elmore Leonard
Starring: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Logan Lerman, Dallas Roberts, Ben Foster, Peter Fonda, Vinessa Shaw, Alan Tudyk, Luce Rains, Gretchen Mol
Music: Marco Beltrami
Distinctions: Oscar nominations for Best Score and Best Sound; formerly on IMDb's Top 250
Synopsis: a farmer helps escort a prisoner to earn the money to save his farm
How I saw it: on video, twice (rented from Netflix), most recently April 2008
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good).
Objective Rating: 10/10 c. 3.3/4 (Very good).
Not one of my favorites, but I could watch it once a year or so and still get pulled in. The story's not very believable, despite apparent efforts at realism, but that's okay, it's a Western.
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