The Claim( 2000)

TV-MADramaRomanceWestern

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A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

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Peter Mullan
Daniel Dillon
Milla Jovovich
Lucia
Wes Bentley
Donald Dalglish
Nastassja Kinski
Elena Burn
Sarah Polley
Hope Burn
Shirley Henderson
Annie
Julian Richings
Francis Bellanger
Sean McGinley
Sweetley
Tom McCamus
Burn
Duncan Frasier
Crocker
Barry Ward
Young Dillon
Karolina Muller
Young Elena
Trevor Allan Davies
Member of Saloon Band

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Tue Jul 21 2015

The Casterbridge Claim. "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" Michael Winterbottom directs what is in essence a Western version of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. It's Sierra Nevada, California, 1867 and the pioneer town of Kingdom Come is thriving under the strict but effective rule of Daniel Dillon (Peter Mullan). Dillon came by way of a gold claim many years earlier by way of a trade, the barter? His wife and child. But now the past is about to catch up with him and Kingdom Come could well turn out to be his burning hell... Right off the bat ...