Lonesome Dove (1989) Review
Lonesome Dove (1989) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Six and a half hours of television that does what almost no Western film has room for, which is to follow a cattle drive long enough that the…
Actor: Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones won Best Supporting Actor for The Fugitive, and his Sam Gerard is the model for a certain kind of competent irritated professional that a great many films have copied since.
The face does the work. He appears constitutionally unable to feign enthusiasm, which is why Men in Black is funny and why No Country for Old Men is not.
No Country gives him the film’s closing monologue, which is the entire argument delivered quietly at a kitchen table after the plot has finished.
He directed The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and The Homesman, both westerns concerned with obligation, and roomed with Al Gore at Harvard, which is a fact that continues to surprise people.
