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Canada10 Movies Set in or About CanadaStop 8 of 10
The Claim
In a snowbound frontier boomtown, the wealthy man who rules the settlement is confronted by ghosts of his past — the wife and daughter he sold away decades ago for a gold claim — just as a railway survey threatens his kingdom. A frontier epic loosely drawn from Thomas Hardy.
Why it’s here
Michael Winterbottom’s British-led western relocates Hardy’s tragedy to a British Columbia mining settlement and makes the Canadian frontier its complete moral geography.
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Genre
- Drama · Romance · Western
- Mood
- romantic · thoughtful
- Entry
- some context
- Best for
- character-driven drama