Product Review

A visionary critique of American expansionism, Heaven€s Gate, directed by Oscar winner Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter), is among Hollywood€s most ambitious and unorthodox epics. Kris Kristofferson (Lone Star) brings his weathered sensuality to the role of a Harvard graduate who has relocated all the way to Wyoming as a federal marshal; there, he learns of a government-sanctioned plot by rich cattle barons to kill the area€s European settlers for their land. The resulting skirmish is based on the real-life bloody Johnson County War of 1892. Also starring Isabelle Huppert (White Material) and Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter), Heaven€s Gate is a savage and ravishingly shot demystification of western movie lore. This is the full director€s cut, letting viewers today see Cimino€s potent original vision.