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The Claim

Everything has a price.

6.0(115)20002h 0m2

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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Status
Released
Budget
$20M
Box office
$669.3K
Language
English
  • based on novel or book
  • romance
  • old west
  • california gold rush

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United Kingdom, Canada, France, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereLos Angeles7 Dec 2000
    • Theatrical (limited)Rsingle theater, two weeks (awards push)29 Dec 2000
    • Theatrical (limited)R20 Apr 2001
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical152 Feb 2001
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalM29 Nov 2001
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical27 Jul 2001
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereBerlin International Film Festival17 Feb 2001

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The Claim was released on 29 December 2000.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    7/21/2015

    8/10

    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…

  • W

    Wuchak

    8/17/2019

    8/10

    ***The beginning and end of a boom town in the Sierra Nevadas*** During the California gold rush of 1849 a desperate man establishes a boom town in the Sierra Nevadas. Eighteen years later his abandoned wife & daughter (Nastassja Kinski & Sarah Polley) ride into town and turn his life (Peter Mullan) upside down. Milla Jovovich plays his singing saloon babe while Wes Bentley is on hand as a surveyor for the railroa…

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