| | The Outsider |  | Director: Randa Haines
Actors: Tim Daly, Naomi Watts, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, Thomas Curtis
Studio: Showtime Ent.
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 8739
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 119
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D1091D
ISBN: 1932228802
UPC: 758445109122
EAN: 9781932228809
ASIN: B0000C2IR4
Theatrical Release Date: November 10, 2002
Release Date: November 18, 2003
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 divine October 5, 2008
This movie is divine. I challenge everyone to buy it if you love westerns!It is historically correct in every way. I want hollywood or whoever to make more like it! I love Tim Daly and Naomi Watts. I have always loved the Carridine men. I grew up watching them and their father John Carridine. The characters were great and the stars were perfect for the parts! Enjoy the movie! Melissa Frix
Awsome September 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great movie and I don't even like Westerns, oh and that Tim Daly WOW now that man has some abs wish I was Naomi Watts during that filming :-)
Awesome Movie July 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an awesome western romance that had great acting. Tim Daly is so handsome. He is an excellent actor. Naomi Watts is a beautiful actress who gives a wonderful performance as a "plain" women. The story is great. It shows how in spite of everything Love Conquers all !!!
You might want to read the novel for the back story! June 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The ominious gun on the black dvd cover and the violent sounding description almost made me bypass this beguiling romance. However, I have become a fan of Naomi Watts so I decided to watch it figuring I could always eject it.
This movie owes its fish-out-of-water plot to the 1950s Angel and the Badman which first recounted the story involving John Wayne as a gunslinger and a Quaker lass. It reappears in the early 1980s as the Amish-themed Witness with Harrison Ford as a big city cop.
The Outsider has much in common with Witness-a pastoral setting, a beautiful widow with a young son who develops feelings for a violence-prone outsider, the disapproval of the religious community over her actions, and the juxtaposition of forgiveness vs said violence.
Briefly, the plot centers around Rebecca Yoder (Watts), an Amish sheep rancher's widow whose husband is murdered by a cattleman who wants their land and them gone. A gravely wounded "shootist" named Johnny Gault (Tim Daly) mysteriously stumbles onto her farm before collapsing. Mirroring Witness, Rebecca nurses him back to health to the disapproval of almost everyone.
However, the evil cattleman Hunter continues to harass and threaten not only the comely widow but the entire Plain community so the shootist begins to take matters into his own hands. Gault also builds up a father-son relationship with Benjo, Rebecca's stuttering young son, who begins to emulate Gault using a rather biblical sling-shot instead of a gun.
I was not familiar with very attractive Daly (which it made it more fun) but he nails his character perfectly and Watts is wonderful as usual and their chemistry is just great! The movie is beautifully filmed on location in New Zealand which passes nicely for Montana (ironically Australian Peter Weir came to the US to direct Witness).
In ways this movie was more satisfying to me than Witness since the protagonist falls deeply in love with a handsome self-described shootist of some repute (29 people according to the novel), and then examines the ramifications of that love.
The movie was sufficiently compelling for me to read the Penelope Williamson's novel on which the movie is based. Overall the movie is better edited than the book which has way too many subplots.
However (and there are minor quibbles), I guess in the interest of movie length there some plot omissions that in my opinion would add richness to the story. First and foremost, the viewer never learns the circumstances that led up to Johnny Gault being severely wounded and stumbling up on the Yoder farm in the first place!
Also the final shootout has been motified somewhat and I think that the novel is better in that regard as it gives a stronger character arc to the shootist. This is two movies in one-a violent western and a charming romance-but it works really well.
 Gunslinger meets Plain people May 26, 2008
I was delighted with this movie. I would not have chosen this film if I had gone by the cover and description on the back. It was much more than advertised - not just about a gunslinger, but in fact, a study in character of what appears to be two opposite people and how a relationship develops between them. It had lots of surprises in it and was not totally predictable. It reminded me of "The Witness" with the slant towards Plain people. Yes, I enjoyed it as much as "The 3:10 to Yuma", but it is different in that it is not pure western, but more "settler" in it's format. Excellent acting and simply a wonderful movie.
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