[An] untypically gentle Peckinpah film.
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10/01/03
Junior Bonner (1972)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:15
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Westerns
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... [More]
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Reviews for Junior Bonner
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A trifle clumsy, but affecting nonetheless.
08/30/06
Gravy.
12/09/07
...the leisurely pace effectively prevents the viewer from wholeheartedly connecting with the material.
07/09/09
Sam Peckinpah presents a sharp look at the "new west" in contrast with the fading frontier scene.
12/01/03
A film filled to overflowing with small, subtle beauties.
01/01/00
No review available.
06/27/05
One of Peckinpah's loveliest films, simmering with family animosity but also brimming with terrific moments of graceless quiet.
08/07/04
A superior rodeo movie.
01/15/05
Junior Bonner may be the least Peckinpah-like in content, but it's very much like his other work in spirit.
05/30/01
No review available.
02/06/05
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03/24/05
... a gentle character study and a lyrical portrait of family, respect and integrity in the face of adversity.
07/19/09
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
There's something essential about boys playing men in front of the women they love.
06/28/05
No review available.
10/21/05
The movie simply never comes together and works as a whole. The material is terribly thin.
10/23/04
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