Junior Bonner (1972)
87 %
Reviews Counted: 15 Fresh: 13 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Synopsis:
Mc Queen is Junior Bonner, an aging rodeo champ who returns to his home town to participate in the annual rodeo. He finds his family estranged, does what he can to help, and then moves on...after some good rodeo riding and a few brawls. [More]
Genre: Westerns
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker
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06/24/06 04:03 AM
There's something essential about boys playing men in front of the women they love.
06/28/05 06:33 PM
The movie simply never comes together and works as a whole. The material is terribly thin.
10/23/04 10:42 PM
Top Critic One of Peckinpah's loveliest films, simmering with family animosity but also brimming with terrific moments of graceless quiet.
08/07/04 09:32 AM
Sam Peckinpah presents a sharp look at the "new west" in contrast with the fading frontier scene.
12/01/03 05:46 PM
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05/24/03 08:20 AM
Junior Bonner, based on an excellent original screenplay by Jeb Rosebrook, is Peckinpah in the benignly comic mood that, I suspect, is much more the natural fashion of this fine director than is the gross, intellectualized mayhem.
05/20/03 05:23 PM
Top Critic Junior Bonner may be the least Peckinpah-like in content, but it's very much like his other work in spirit.
05/30/01 03:00 PM
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