The Hi-Lo Country

1998
R
1h 54m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

4.6K

YOUR RATING

Play trailer0:31

2 Videos

28 Photos

Drama Romance Western

Two cowboys have their friendship tested when they fall for the same girl.Two cowboys have their friendship tested when they fall for the same girl.Two cowboys have their friendship tested when they fall for the same girl.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

4.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 4 nominations total

Videos2

Photos28

+ 20

More like this

6.8

6.2

6.5

6.2

5.7

6.6

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

6.1

Permanent Vacation

6.9

The Grifters

7.3

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

6.9

The Contender

7.3

Tess

6.4

Scotch and Milk

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
Director Sam Peckinpah tried to get this movie produced for years, but unfortunately he died before he had the chance.

Goofs
A Coke vending machine is clearly labeled ten cents. In this part of the country in the late 1940s it would have been five cents. Around 1960 vending machines went to six cents, quite a novelty at the time, requiring two coins to get a Coke. It was later in the 1960s when vending machines finally went to ten cents.

Quotes
Pete Calder: I once set out to kill a man. I took pleasure in the thought of his death.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: At First Sight/Another Day in Paradise/Hi-Lo Country/Playing by Heart/The Theory of Flight (1999)

Soundtracks
Que Chulos Ojos
Written by Francisco Cantu
Performed by Hermanas Ayala
Published by San Antonio Music Publishers, Inc.

User reviews33

Review

Featured review

Passionate, entertaining western melodrama

The Hi-Lo Country has it all: male bonding, bar fights, passion and obsession. The characters reflect the brutality and the charm of old ways which refuse to die. Great performances by Woody Harrelson and the younger Billy Crudup who star as lifelong friends whose world made of land and cattle start changing under their feet after their return from World War II.

The Hi-Lo Country is an involving, intense and somewhat nostalgic western which tries to abandon traditional plot lines while using all the classic western cliches. Strongly advised to people who like some "melo" in their "drama".