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Appaloosa (2008)

★ 6.6 · 1,079 ratings on TMDB

Feelings get you killed.

Appaloosa poster★ 6.6

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.

DirectorEd Harris
CastAriadna Gil, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Ed Harris, James Gammon, Jeremy Irons, Renée Zellweger
GenresCrime, Drama, Western
The emergence reading

Appaloosa keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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