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a group of free grazing cattlemen and a wealthy, unscrupulous rancher lies at the center of “Open Range.”
The story is about a pair of affable but vaguely anti-social cowpunchers with dark pasts (Costner and Robert Duvall) who, while driving their herd across eastern Montana, run afoul of a greedy Irish American land baron (Michael Gambon). It’s the old homesteaders versus cattlemen formula, only this time it reverses the premise so it’s the cattlemen who represent the higher qualities of free-spirited individuality, and the evil squatter who embodies the forces that want to ruthlessly fence in the open range.
Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall) has ridden with Charley Waite (Kevin Costner) for a decade. Recently, they have taken on two apprentices, gentle giant Bose (Abraham Benrubi) and the orphan Button (Diego Luna.). All is going well until they reach a town “owned” by Denton Baxter (Michael Gambon), who doesn’t like free grazers and wants Boss’ herd. So, with the help of the corrupt local marshal, Poole (James Russo), he contrives to have Boss and his fellows murdered.
Things don’t go exactly as
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