Ang Lee's first American studio film Ride with the Devil was released, albeit briefly, in 1999 with numerous cuts that were either ordered by the studio or made by the director himself. The Criterion Collection has released a restored director's cut that includes all of the excised footage. With or without the changes, Ride with the Devil is a subversive, action-packed film with the idiosyncratic touch that has come to define Lee's career.
Jake Roedel (Tobey Maguire) and Jake Bull (Skeet Ulrich) are young friends living in Missouri during the height of the state's border war with Kansas. After Roedel's father is killed by abolitionist Jayhawkers, he and his buddy join up with an outlaw band of Confederate sympathizers called the Bushwhackers. Along their marauding path through the forests, the two Jakes encounter an odd pair of Bushwackers: George Clyde (Simon Baker) and his black friend Daniel Holt (Jeffrey Wright). Holt was once a slave,...
Jake Roedel (Tobey Maguire) and Jake Bull (Skeet Ulrich) are young friends living in Missouri during the height of the state's border war with Kansas. After Roedel's father is killed by abolitionist Jayhawkers, he and his buddy join up with an outlaw band of Confederate sympathizers called the Bushwhackers. Along their marauding path through the forests, the two Jakes encounter an odd pair of Bushwackers: George Clyde (Simon Baker) and his black friend Daniel Holt (Jeffrey Wright). Holt was once a slave,...
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