Short storyline
The last months of Jesse James's life, from meeting Robert Ford, a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse, to the day Ford shoots him. Jesse's a wanted man, living under a pseudonym, carrying out a train robbery, disappearing to Kentucky, and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Robert's brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead, arrested, or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesse's around, there's tension: he's murderous, quixotic, depressed, and cautious. Ford wants to be somebody and wants the reward. On April 3, 1882, things come to a head: Jesse is 34, Robert 20. Ford becomes famous, reenacting the shooting on stage, facing down the label "coward," shot dead in 1892.
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Runtime: 160 min
Release Date: 10 October 2007 (France)
Country: USA, Canada
Box office: Budget: $30,000,000 (estimated). Opening Weekend: $147,812 (USA) (23 September 2007) (5 Screens). Gross: $3,904,982 (USA) (27 January 2008)
Soundtrack: A Bird in a Gilded Cage