Review of Red Headed Stranger (1986) by Allan C — 27 May 2012
Willie Nelson may be a good singer and songwriter and does have some good scenes in this movie. It's just too bad the movie fails. Nelson plays a preacher who moves to a Montana town where the water is controlled by a bunch of inbred rednecks called the Clavers led by Royal Dano who is so bad as a villain he makes Phillip Seymour Hoffman look scary.
Anyway, there's some scenes of Nelson trying to get a well back and working, then he leaves the town when his wife, played by Morgan Fairchild who gets upstaged by her wet seethrough nipples, leaves town with another man, so he leaves town and catches up with them and shoots them both.
Right about here is where the movie gets weird. The movie never really explains while Nelson's preacher shot them. Is he a bad person now? The movie basically ties on every country western cliche after another.
The sheriff who won't fight the corrupt people. The townspeople who won't stand up. Katherine Ross as the empowered woman on the frontier who don't need a man. The whole fight over the freaking water and the windmill and the well.
This movie seems like it was rushed into completion.
This review of Red Headed Stranger (1986) was written by Allan C on 27 May 2012.
Red Headed Stranger has generally received positive reviews.
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