Brokeback Mountain, 2005

Production Companies: Alberta Film Entertainment, Focus Features, Good Machine, Paramount Pictures, River Road Entertainment

Distribution: Focus Features, Entertainment Film Distributors

Director: Ang Lee

Producers: Diana Ossana (Producer), James Schamus (Producer), Scott Ferguson (Co-producer), Michael Costigan (Executive Producer)

Screenplay: Larry McMurty & Diana Ossana, based on Annie Proulx’s 1997 short story Brokeback Mountain

Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto

Editors: Geraldine Peroni, Dylan Tichenor

Music: Gustavo Santaolalla

Cast: Heath Ledger (Ennis Del Mar), Jake Gyllenhaal (Jack Twist), Randy Quaid (Joe Aguirre), Michelle Williams (Alma), Anne Hathaway (Lureen Newsome), Scott Michael Campbell (Monroe), Graham Beckel (L.D. Newsome), Roberta Maxwell (Jack’s Mother), Peter Robbie (John Twist).

Running Time: 134 mins.

Rating: Rated R for sexuality, nudity, language and some violence

Box Office: domestic $83m/worldwide $178m

Tagline: Love is a force of nature

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Walk the Line, 2005

Production Companies: Fox 2000 Pictures, Tree Line Films, Konrad Pictures, Catfish Productions, Mars Media Betelieligungs

Distribution: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Producer: James Keach, Cathy Konrad, Alan C. Blomquist and John Carter Cash

Screenplay: Gill Dennis and James Mangold, based on Johnny Cash’s autobiographies Man in Black (1975) and Cash: The Autobiography (1997)

Director: James Mangold

Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael

Editor: Michael McCusker

Music: T-Bone Burnett

Running time: 136 mins.

Classification: PG-13, for some language, thematic material and depiction of drug dependency

Tagline: Love is a burning thing

Box office gross: domestic $119.5m/worldwide $186.5m

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix (Johnny Cash), Reese Witherspoon (June Carter), Ginnifer Goodwin (Vivian Cash), Robert Patrick (Ray Cash), Shelby Lynne (Carrie Cash).
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