My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

1991
PG
1h 46m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

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Kate Capshaw, Balthazar Getty, Scott Glenn, and Ben Johnson in My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991)

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Contemporary Western Drama Western

A rodeo rider decides to quit his line of work after a serious injury, but when he visits his family and finds out that his dad is not well, he'll have to risk it one more time.A rodeo rider decides to quit his line of work after a serious injury, but when he visits his family and finds out that his dad is not well, he'll have to risk it one more time.A rodeo rider decides to quit his line of work after a serious injury, but when he visits his family and finds out that his dad is not well, he'll have to risk it one more time.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

745

YOUR RATING

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Awards
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Featured review

9/10

Very inspiring and touching

H D Dalton (Scott Glenn) is a former rodeo champion with his career ruined by a bull that gored him. He returns in his hometown in Oklahoma only to discover that his father is in a nursing home, his sister is now a widow and the farm is now abandoned. After returning his dad in the farm, H D discovers that the ranch would be sold unless he obtains 100,000 $ after participating in a rodeo and ride a bull for 32 seconds. So H D has a gruesome training for winning the rodeo and save his ranch and dad.

While this is now an obscure movie available only on YouTube, it's still great. Scott Glenn gives a great performance as a former rodeo star that tries to win a bull riding context despite his past scars, and succedds. The other cast members (Clarence Williams III, Ben Johnson and Mickey Rooney) are very entertaining and the movie itself is inspiring and gives the message of never giving up on your past passions despite injuries or thoughts of the other people, I nearly cried towards the end when H D managed to ride the bull for 32 seconds.

If you stumble on this movie during a YouTube search, don't miss it because it's one of those films that goes for the say... they don't make 'em like this anymore!

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Trivia
Lane Frost was originally going to perform the stunts for the main character (H.D. Dalton), and his wife Kellie Kyle-Frost (now Macy) was working as Stunt Coordinator for the film at the time of Lane's death at the 1989 Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming. After Lane's death, his good friend Tuff Hedeman performed the stunt work.

Goofs
When HD is shaving in the mirror and his Dad is watching, he cuts himself several times, the first one in the middle of his left cheek. Afterward he is shown with bits of toilet paper stuck to the cuts, but the one on the left cheek is almost under his ear instead of where he actually cut it.

Quotes
H.D.: I didn't know you were such a big Dolly Parton fan, Junior.
Junior: Yeah, I love her.
Junior: She's a fine Christian woman.
Junior: That's why the Lord blessed her with such... abundance.