The Claim (2000)

R12/29/2000Drama, Romance, Western2h
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Everything has a price.

Overview

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Peter Mullan

    Daniel Dillon

  2. Cast 1

    Milla Jovovich

    Lucia

  3. Cast 1

    Wes Bentley

    Donald Dalglish

  4. Cast 1

    Nastassja Kinski

    Elena Burn

  5. Cast 1

    Sarah Polley

    Hope Burn

  6. Cast 1

    Shirley Henderson

    Annie

  7. Cast 1

    Julian Richings

    Francis Bellanger

  8. Cast 1

    Sean McGinley

    Sweetley

  9. Cast 1

    Tom McCamus

    Burn

***The beginning and end of a boom town in the Sierra Nevadas*** During the California gold rush of 1849 a desperate man establishes a boom town in the Sierra Nevadas. Eighteen years later his abandoned wife & daughter (Nastassja Kinski & Sarah Polley) ride into town and turn his life (Peter Mullan) upside down. Milla Jovovich plays his singing saloon babe while Wes Bentley is on hand as a surveyor for the railroad that’s coming through. “The Claim” (2000) is a top-of-the-line Western that inexplicably fell through the cracks when it was released. It has similarities to “McCabe & Mrs....

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$20,000,000.00

Revenue $669,258.00

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