Butcher's Crossing

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Butcher's Crossing

R

2023

1h 45m

Western

Adventure

Drama

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Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky's epic frontier adventure, Butcher's Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man's relationship to his natural environment. Academy Award™ winner Nicolas Cage (1996, Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in a gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone's resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife's edge.

Critics Consensus

Butcher's Crossing benefits from Nicolas Cage's lead turn, which helps make this largely boilerplate Western more compelling than not.

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Ryan Gilbey

Guardian

11/01/2023

2/5

The film doesn’t really know what it is or who it’s for.

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Kyle Smith

Wall Street Journal

10/23/2023

The film’s hints of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Moby-Dick and The Old Man and the Sea lend some much-needed weight to what would otherwise be a pedestrian story of men fighting the elements and one another.

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Joe Leydon

Variety

10/22/2023

Cage is welcomely understated in a performance that is all the more impressive for his avoiding his trademark excess.

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Trace Sauveur

Loud and Clear Reviews

01/08/2025

2.5/5

Butcher’s Crossing features a solid Nic Cage performance and an okay sense of craft but loses sight of its characters and greater ideas.

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Robert W. Butler

Butler's Cinema Scene

04/04/2024

B

Butcher’s Crossing is nothing less than a landlocked Moby Dick, a tale of obsession and madness on a sea of grass.

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John Serba

Decider

04/01/2024

When you have Hollywood’s loosest nut at your disposal and you don’t get the most from him, well, that’s a paddlin’.

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Lisa L

12/08/2024

I had little to no expectations going into this movie, and with that, I was pleasantly surprised. Still not a great movie nor a masterpiece, however it was good and really intense. I recommend it!

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richard f

10/28/2023

I was hoping that Cage could use this Character to create a different feel from him. unfortunately he's the regular Nick Cage with a shaved head. without giving too much away, they're stuck in a brutal winter in the middle of nowhere for 8 months, and the movie spends about 20 minutes on this 8 month survival. The upsetting part is to find out the millions of American bison that were nearly pushed to extinction during this part of the nation's history.

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Magesh

10/26/2023

Beautifully shot. Well acted by Nic Cage. Good watch

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Kevin

10/25/2023

This movie could have been premiered on regular television

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Susanne

10/24/2023

It was sad and boring.

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Julie S

10/22/2023

i didn't care for the movie-Love Nicholas Cage but the story was boring and the end was pointless.

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Synopsis

Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky's epic frontier adventure, Butcher's Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man's relationship to his natural environment. Academy Award™ winner Nicolas Cage (1996, Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in a gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone's resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife's edge.

Director: Gabe Polsky
Producer: Gabe Polsky, Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers, Will Clarke, Andy Mayson
Screenwriter: Gabe Polsky, Liam Satre-Meloy
Distributor: Saban Films
Production Co: Phiphen Pictures, Saban Films, Saturn Films, Gabriel Polsky Productions, Conqueror Productions, Altitude Film Entertainment, Ingenious Media
Rating: R (Language|Brief Sexual Content|Some Violence/Bloody Images)
Genre: Western, Adventure, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 20, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 7, 2023
Runtime: 1h 45m