Echo Bridge Home Entertainment. The setting for this film is a forest maintenance camp where different types of workers matured, grew together and bonded under the watchfull eye of Sam Elliot (perfect for the part). Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2016. Basically a coming-of-age western, though set after World War I. I thought it'd be about a Ranger teaching someone how to be a ranger. Watch The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky starring Sam Elliott in this Western on DIRECTV. Looking for something to watch? The cook in both situations is one of the moral makers. Legendary veteran ranger Bill Bell educates the young man and guides him toward manhood. Forest fires were fought with guts and courage, not chemicals and airplanes. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, with Philippe Rousselot winning for his cinematography. FAQ A heartwarming coming of age movie. Bonk. Thankfully, "...Hole in the Sky" tells one of them where a college student acquires some life-experience. Wild. For that, Marshal Speakes, her father-in-law, sentences her to... See full summary », The stormy relationship of a young teenage boy with his troubled older brother is told in an extended flashback segment bookended by what happens when the two meet again fifteen years later... See full summary ». Forest rangers are clearing a trail over a mountain during one long summer. Nice family film - but needed a fuller story with more happening in it! Use the HTML below. According to my friend, this film is accurate and based on facts. Sign in to see videos available to you. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Jerry O'Connell and Sam Elliot star in this improbably named western, set in Montana in the early 1900s. In 1933 the Selway forest was burned out and my grandfather reassigned to the Forest Supervisor's office in Grangeville, ID.

Add the first question. Sam Shepherd plays his usual gruff, western character, which is fine since he's so good at it. Excellent factual depiction of the early 20th century West, For all who loved the western mountains, and still do. This is a quiet, introspective movie in many respects, with no gunplay or fancy theatrics other than the bar fight. We can believe this is how forestry people did their job then, and perhaps even now -- with the addition of today's engines, of course. I was surprised how close the film story-line replicates the true story of my grandfather as Selway NF Ranger from 1927-1942 and that of my father growing up in the Selway forest at that time, including his assignment to run a telegraph line solo on horseback along the Lolo Trail to Missoula, MT. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin.

Back then, a lot of it was accomplished by hand. Elliot is the trail boss, and the best mule packer in the group. There's also a humdinger of a bar fight over a poker game involving the camp cook, played by real-life magician Ricky Jay.

When he ... See full summary », After years of suffering under her beating husband, Sarah decides to no longer take any humiliation or battery, and kills him. Enjoyable. This FAQ is empty. (TV Movie 1995). Only way this film is held up is acting. During the summer he falls in love, experiences all types of weather and gets involved in a high stakes game of poker. Included with Hallmark Movies Now on Amazon for $5.99/month after trial. Tilghman was a real-life cowboy, who rode with the Earps and faced down countless bad guys. It was even rumored that he had at one time killed a sheep farmer, which only fueled his already enormous reputation. We can believe this is how forestry people did their job then, and perhaps even now -- with the addition of today's engines, of course. In the end, the cook brought the ship in by winning at the poker table and the end of the summer season in the forestry camp end in a happy ending. Directed by John Kent Harrison. Back then, a lot of it was accomplished by hand. Although The Ranger does not have the production value and narration skills of Robert Redford, it does ellicit the reminiscing and poignancy that Norman Maclean was so good at expressing in his novels. Buffalo Girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. This movie reminded me of the days of when I was a young sailor on my first ship at sea. Based on a book by Norman Maclean, and closely based on his own youthful experiences, this made-for-TV drama concerns Mac (Jerry O'Connell), a teenage boy who gets a job working for the National Forest Service in Montana shortly after the end of World War II. The start of the story is rather dull, so you will need to stick with it.

RELEASED TO TV IN 1995 and directed by John Kent Harrison, "The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky" chronicles events in the western Montana wilderness in 1919 where a cocky 17 year-old (Jerry O'Connell) in the forest service is guided by a seasoned ranger (Sam Elliott), conflicts with a card shark cook (Ricky Jay) and becomes infatuated by a cute girl (Molly Parker). The emphasis on social relationships and hard work in remote settings is amazingly accurate. Awards The summer that follows teaches him to be a man as he learns the meaning of hard work on the trail. Every year I read a River Runs Through It and The Ranger, The Cook, and A Hole in the Sky to my high school students. No real bad people in the movie but pure human beings with different sides and (dis)abilities. In this movie, though, I miss his also iconic moustasche but the movie itself is quite wonderful - full of peace and reflections and not like too many movies always running at super speed like the ordinary super hero movie. In a gradually increasing crescendo of emphasis, starting in a normal tone, ending in a near roar, WESTERNS or Movies Depicting Settling of the West in U. S. (Janet's List), The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky. The young ranger does everything to remain in the good graces of Bill Bell, the senior ranger he idolizes. Sam Elliot is the man in charge, the young apprentice is Jerry O'Connell.

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