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Release Date: 1995 Cast: Joe Stevens, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, Kaytlyn Knowles, Aidan Quinn, Brian Dennehy, Robert Duvall, Billy Bob Thornton, Victor Wong, Lexi Randall, Frances Fisher
Categories: Movies, Americana The Stars Fell on Henrietta is a 1995 drama film from Warner Bros., directed by James Keach and produced by Clint Eastwood.
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox (Robert Duvall) finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day (Aidan Quinn) that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost?
Filming took place in Abilene, Texas on a budget of $13,000,000.
It received mostly negative reviews, holding only a 29%... MORE
The Stars Fell on Henrietta is a 1995 drama film from Warner Bros., directed by James Keach and produced by Clint Eastwood.
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox (Robert Duvall) finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day (Aidan Quinn) that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost?
Filming took place in Abilene, Texas on a budget of $13,000,000.
It received mostly negative reviews, holding only a 29% on Rotten Tomatoes, though Robert Duvall's performance was widely praised. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said "The movie may be worth seeing for (Robert Duvall's) performance, but the story itself is disappointing; it seems to travel around the same track once too often, and when the payoff comes, it seems short-circuited." Kenneth Turan of The Los Angeles Times said " Duvall's performance, however, is frankly on a different level than anything else in the film...With his innate ability to create people whole, to make his familiar mannerisms and gestures work effectively in every LESS
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