That doesn't seem right; I definitely didn't recognize him if he was the villain, and the character name on IMDb seems wrong, too). However, at this point Dan Frost suddenly appears and tells the thug to leave Jane alone. One day Ham returns home with several serious bullet wounds. Meanwhile, Bishop has already set out with his gang to find Ham. Jane and Dan were once engaged, but he enlisted in the army to fight in the American Civil War. The film was released on January 29, 2016. After Dan left to enlist, she discovered she was pregnant. [10] On February 4, 2013, Rodrigo Santoro was announced to have joined the cast, playing a character named Fitchum. Captured by the enemy, he was held for years in a prison camp, and when he finally returned home, Jane had left. [20] On May 6, 2013, Ewan McGregor was announced to take over the role of John Bishop from Cooper. It also reached number two in Canada, number 12 in Sweden, and number 13 in New Zealand. [36] It is the worst wide release opening for The Weinstein Company. They said when Janie was arrested they found him underneath a train But man, he had it comin' Now that Janie's got a gun she ain't never gonna be the same. Plot Summary: "Jane Got a Gun" centers on Jane Hammond (Natalie Portman), who has built a new life with her husband Bill "Ham" Hammond (Noah Emmerich) after … Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Jane and Dan manage to move the dying Ham into a shallow storage space beneath the floor, to protect him from the gunfire, but the strain is too much for him and he dies. [39], Joe Leydon of Variety gave the film a positive review, writing: "A solidly-made and conventionally-satisfying Western, is one of those movies. [19] On May 1, 2013, it was announced that Cooper was withdrawing from the film. Jane Got a Gun stars Portman, best known for her Oscar-winning turn in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, as a farmer's wife whose outlaw husband returns home bloodied and … Add the first question. “Jane Got a Gun” has its good points and less demanding fans of the Western genre may find some value in it, especially considering how few films of its type actually get made these days. Four young adult siblings, who harbor some dark secrets, try to fend for themselves after the mysterious death of their parents. The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races. Too late, she and the other women on the wagon train realized that Bishop's intention was to start a brothel in another town, and he intended to force the helpless women into prostitution. Dan talked to Bishop, who told him that during the journey Ham and Jane ran off together. It is obvious from their brief conversation that there is some past history – and bitterness - between Dan and Jane. With the vengeful crew hot on Ham's trail, Jane has nowhere to turn but to her former fiancé Dan Frost for help in defending her family against certain destruction. Relativity. Doctors Jo Wilson, April Kepner, and Andrew DeLuca share the episodes they think are essential to understanding their characters. Dan realized that he had lost her forever and was left broken-hearted by the discovery. John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other. [11] On March 11, 2013, it was revealed that Fassbender left the film due to scheduling conflicts with X-Men: Days of Future Past. Eventually, he heard that she had moved west on a wagon train led by John Bishop. Janie's got a gun Janie's got a gun Her whole world's come undone From lookin' straight at the sun What did her daddy do? The story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. Later, Jane tells Dan her side of the story. [35] However, the film only grossed $865,572 with a per theater average of $691. Most of the gang are killed, but some – including Bishop himself – escape. Jane Hammond (Natalie Portman) has built a life on the rugged western plains with her husband Bill A laborer in Southern Italy raises his son after the sudden death of the kid's mother. They have a believable sense of history between them. Haunted by old memories, Jane's past meets the present in a heart-stopping battle for survival. While the two men are distracted, Jane draws her gun and kills the outlaw. The song was released as the second single from Pump in 1989, peaking at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart in 1990. Jane Got a Gun trailer Portman is solid as the resourceful Jane, whose husband (Noah Emmerich) brings the threat of home invasion to their door after a run-in with the murderous Bishop boys. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live. Jane shoots him several times, wounding him badly, until in his agony he reveals that Mary lives at the brothel. The script by Brian Duffield appeared on the 2011 Black List, an annual listing of well-regarded unproduced screenplays. Dan and Jane continue to fight it out with the remaining gang members, although both are wounded. [30][31] In July 2015, Relativity Media lost their distribution rights to the film, amid their filing for bankruptcy. A terrifying journey into one man's twisted world of torture and cruelty, in which a young woman must fight back against a sadistic, psychopath hell bent on breaking her mind and body. [29] On April 24, 2014, the studio set a release date for February 20, 2015 for the film, which was later moved back to September 4. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over Dan, a somewhat surly man who lives in a squalid, dirty house, refuses to help. As she is leaving the gun shop, she is waylaid and dragged into an alley by one of the Bishop gang. Jane and her husband Bill "Ham" Hammond live in an isolated house with their five-year-old daughter Katie. Lynne Ramsay was set to direct, but apparently she was never sent an approved shooting schedule, budget or script and her ‘final cut’ privileges would be revoked if the production went over budget or over schedule. An electric surge causes a serial killer's soul to end up in a computer system. Jane rides into town to buy guns and ammunition and hopefully find someone who will help her family. A nice, solid, little Western starring Natalie Portman and Joel Edgerton. Later, Ham finds that Jane and her daughter have gone missing; searching for Mary, he sees a child's boot in the river, and thinks the child has drowned. During a mission in the Middle East, a group of US soldiers destroy a statue out of boredom only to then be visited by something the next day. The site's consensus reads, "Jane Got a Gun flounders between campy Western and hard-hitting revisionist take on the genre, leaving Natalie Portman's committed performance stranded in the dust. Then she, Dan, Mary and Katie ride off together to start a new life as a family. "[41], Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "Filming on location in New Mexico, O’Connor and his team make strong use of the stark and sometimes-breathtaking exteriors, even if the drama is often confined to the Hammond homestead. [17] On April 5, 2013, it was announced that Bradley Cooper would replace Law in the role of John Bishop. Far from complementing each other, though, the classic and revisionist western tropes instead clash throughout the film. He said he would gladly help Dan to track them down, as he had his own scores to settle with Ham, but Dan refused, saying that he preferred to ride alone. For those who have perused the countless accounts of last-minute cast changes, musical directors’ chairs and repeatedly-delayed release dates, it may be difficult to objectively judge what actually appears on screen here without being distracted by thoughts of what could have been, or should have been. In 1872, an embittered gunslinger named John Henry Clayton attempts to make amends with his estranged father Reverend Samuel Clayton while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers. Jane Got a Gun 2016 | 16+ | 1h 38m | Westerns When her husband is nearly killed, iron-willed frontier woman Jane Hammond recruits her former lover to help battle an army of vengeful outlaws. [16] Edgerton and Anthony Tambakis, co-screenwriter of O'Connor's previous film Warrior, were then hired to rewrite Duffield's script. "[38] On Metacritic the film has a score of 49 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Jane Got a Gun Natalie Portman's titular character in Jane Got a Gun — a convoluted but momentarily intriguing western that has a suitable brown/black/indigo burnished tint to it — is an 1871 New Mexico frontierswoman whom comes to need a former flame in order to protect her wounded husband from the incoming Bishop Boys gang who swear vendetta. There's surely a great feminist Western hiding somewhere in the concept of Jane Got a Gun, and I have to assume that producer-star Natalie Portman has been nurturing the project for so long, through so many production woes, in the hopes of finding it.It absolutely didn't happen. [34], Jane Got a Gun was a box office bomb. As they work, flashbacks of their previous lives are shown. Cooper revealed that he was leaving because of scheduling conflicts with American Hustle. Title: 18 of 33 people found this review helpful. [23] On October 5, 2015, the first international poster was released. Lynne Ramsay to Direct Adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon’, Naomi Watts thriller ‘Lakewood’ proves hot seller for Mister Smith (exclusive), IMDb Picks: "Portlandia" Returns and 'The Boy' Disturbs. A further flashback shows that Ham, having taken a fancy to Jane during the wagon train journey, tells Bishop that he would like to marry her. Natalie Portman’s grievously wounded husband makes it back to their homestead and warns her there’s a … Jane Got a Gun centers on Jane Hammond, who has built a new life with her husband Bill "Ham" Hammond after being tormented by the ultra-violent Bishop Boys outlaw gang. Ham is still alive, but very weak. [2] The film was released in North America on January 29, 2016, with a projected opening weekend gross around $1 million from 1,210 theaters. Jane Got a Gun is directed by Gavin O'Connor and collectively written by Brian Duffield, Anthony Tambakis and Joel Edgerton. The film stars Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Noah Emmerich, Rodrigo Santoro, Boyd Holbrook, and Ewan McGregor. Jane Got a Gun centers on Jane Hammond, who has built a new life with her husband Bill "Ham" Hammond after being tormented by the ultra-violent Bishop Boys outlaw gang. [13] On March 20, Gavin O'Connor was announced as her replacement. She then rides to the home of a neighbor, Dan Frost, and asks him if he will help her to protect her property from the Bishop Boys. Jane Got a Gun is set somewhere in New Mexico Territory in 1871. After missing her target horribly while learning to shoot a pistol, Jane picks up a rifle to demonstrate that she can shoot that type of firearm well. “Janie’s Got A Gun” is a song from the 1990 Aerosmith album Pump. [15], Cinematographer Darius Khondji also left the production, and was replaced by Mandy Walker. Written by [26], Originally the film was set to be distributed in the U.S. by Relativity Media, and The Weinstein Company. [33] The film was released in the United States on January 29, 2016. [27] The film was originally announced that it would be released on August 29, 2014,[28] which the studio cancelled on April 10, 2014. His men spread out over the area to extend their search, and one of them chances upon Jane's house. "Planetarium" follows the journey of sisters who are believed to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. Need some help finding the best things to watch on Netflix? [18] On April 10, 2013, it was announced that Noah Emmerich had been cast in the final lead role of Bill Hammond, Jane's husband. Jane Got a Gun is a 2015 American action Western film directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by Brian Duffield, Joel Edgerton, and Anthony Tambakis. For others, it comes closer to working than anyone might have rightly have expected given its peculiar backstory but not quite to the point where it would be worth heading out to the theater to see. release. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Janie's got a gun Janie's got a gun [8] In August 2012, Michael Fassbender was reported as being in talks to play the role of Dan Frost, Jane's ex-lover. In Australia, the song reached number one, becoming Aerosmith's first of two number-one singles there. But Bishop tells Ham that Jane is his "property". Most of that history is told in flashbacks throughout the picture. Financial analysis of Jane Got a Gun (2015) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. [25] On December 7, 2015, the second and final international trailer was released. By the time their child, a little girl called Mary, was two or three years old, life in Jane's war-torn town had become so wretched that she decided to take Mary and move West on the Bishop wagon train. Jane then kills Bishop. He promised his son that his mother will come back to life, and now he must find a way to keep this promise. (2015). Blu-ray. It grossed $1.5 million in the United States and Canada and $2.3 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $3.8 million, plus $1.8 million with home video sales,[3] against a production budget of $25 million. He goes to the brothel where Jane has been forced to work, and rescues her. The main bulk of the story has Emmerich wounded by McGregor and his men. The story's simple, but Portman and Edgerton carry the film nicely. Rated: R. Format: Blu-ray. Let our editors help you find what's trending and what's worth your time. She finds herself in the gang's cross-hairs once again when Ham stumbles home riddled with bullets after dueling with the Boys and their relentless mastermind Colin. It stars Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor, Noah Emmerich, Boyd Holbrook and Rodrigo Santoro. [22], In January 2015, the first images from the film were released online. Back in the present time, the Bishop gang finally arrive at Jane's house, under cover of darkness. 979 ratings. Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun (Official Music Video) - YouTube A modern western with a strong female lead, yet old-fashioned sensibilities and story, Jane Got A Gun is hardly an atypical Western. Jane takes the bodies of John Bishop and his gang to the sheriff and collects a huge reward. Jane Got a Gun (2015) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Jane Got a Gun is a 2015 American action Western film directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by Brian Duffield, Joel Edgerton, and Anthony Tambakis. This is a gang of vicious criminals, led by John Bishop, that Ham himself used to ride with. What did he put you through? Trying to persuade her not to kill him, Bishop tells Jane that Mary is not dead, as she had thought. [37], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 43%, based on 80 reviews, with an average rating of 5.22/10. The film was shown on October 12, 2017 at the 7th Almería Western Film Festival.[4][5][6]. Other tech contributions are solid, though this is a film whose production history may ultimately prove more memorable than what’s been produced: In Jane Got a Gun, the real bullets were the ones fired behind the camera." [21] On June 3, 2013, Boyd Holbrook was announced to be playing the younger brother of John Bishop. The two were engaged before Edgerton had to go off to war, but she took off west after not having heard from him in three years. Finally, Bishop (the only gang member left alive) manages to corner Dan and is about to kill him, when Jane sneaks up behind Bishop and draws her gun on him. There are some weaknesses in the details of the film, especially in the flashbacks, which often seem skeletal in their scripting (Joel Edgerton co-wrote the screenplay with two others). With the vengeful crew hot on Ham's trail, Jane has nowhere to turn but to her former fiancé Dan Frost for help in defending her family against certain destruction. [24] On October 21, 2015 the first international trailer was released. [12] On March 19, 2013, it was announced that Ramsay had left the production. Jane Got A Gun [Blu-ray] Natalie Portman (Actor), Joel Edgerton (Actor), Gavin O'Connor (Director) & 0 more. "[42] Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Since the film’s last-minute rewrites, casting switcheroos, and musical chairs behind the camera are irrelevant to the actual quality of the movie, I’ll avoid rehashing them here, save to say that the disarray shows on screen. Jane is distraught when Ham tells her that Mary is dead. Jane and Dan go to the brothel and find their daughter, Mary, who is working as a servant. Jane Got a Gun is also rated R, and contains the type of violence that would be more fitting in a modern revisionist Western such as Bone Tomahawk or Django Unchained. A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him. Dan and Jane fire into the booby-trapped ditch, igniting the kerosene "bombs". After a long period of production issues since 2012, involving director and casting changes, principal photography began on March 21, 2013. Jane Got a Gun centers on Jane Hammond (Natalie Portman), who has built a new life with her husband Bill Ham Hammond (Noah Emmerich) after being tormented by … Jane Got a Gun 2016 | 16+ | 1h 38m | Dramas When her husband is nearly killed, iron-willed frontier woman Jane Hammond recruits her former lover to help battle an army of vengeful outlaws. When prostitution becomes her life she also finds a magic lamp. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? When Dan did not return, or write, she assumed he was dead. "[40] Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Jane Got A Gun may not have reinvented the wagon wheel, but it rolls out as a sturdy, well-crafted genre piece despite its rocky road to the screen. Jane Got a Gun Trailer N/A IMDB: 5.9 After her husband returns home taken with eight bullets and hardly alive, Jane reluctantly reaches into a ex-lover who she's not seen in over a decade to help her shield her farm once the moment comes that her spouse's gang eventually tracks him … No settler out in the middle of nowhere would shoot the handle off of a much needed and precious implement such as an ax just to prove a point. [7], In May 2012, it was announced that Natalie Portman would star in the film as the title character Jane Hammond and that Lynne Ramsay would direct. He recognizes Jane, but Dan kills him before he can raise the alarm. [14] The same day, it was also announced that Law had left the film, for the reason that he had signed on to work with Ramsay. Use the HTML below. Ramsay then recast Edgerton in the vacated role of Dan Frost and cast Jude Law in the role of John Bishop. 4.3 out of 5 stars. Dan has changed his mind about helping Jane, so they start preparing for the expected attack from the Bishop gang. Leaving the body in the alley, Jane and Dan ride back to her house. [9] In December 2012, Joel Edgerton was cast as John Bishop, the villain of the film. 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(Exclusive)", "Box Office: 'Kung Fu Panda 3' Takes Top Spot, 'Jane Got A Gun' Posts Worst Weinstein Company Wide Release Opening Ever", "Review: This 'Jane's' a straight shooter, despite checkered past", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jane_Got_a_Gun&oldid=1022827858, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with Japanese-language sources (ja), Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 12 May 2021, at 18:33. The film stars Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Noah Emmerich, Rodrigo Santoro, Boyd Holbrook, and Ewan McGregor. Jane then proceeds to shoot the handle off of an ax. Well let's just say mankind has no chance. Was this review helpful to you? Jane Got a Gun centers on Jane Hammond, who has built a new life with her husband Bill "Ham" Hammond after being tormented by the ultra-violent Bishop Boys outlaw gang. Not great, but good. View production, box office, & company info. After thinking about the title, Steven Tyler wrote lyrics inspired by two different stories he read in Time and Her wishes? This FAQ is empty. He threatens her at gunpoint and – despite Jane protesting that she "hasn't seen Hammond in years" – he demands that she take him back to her house, as he is convinced that Ham is there, having recognized the gun Jane is carrying as one belonging to Hammond. "Janie's Got a Gun" is a song performed by American rock band Aerosmith and written by Steven Tyler and Tom Hamilton. Haunted by old memories, Jane's past meets the present in a heart-stopping battle for survival. Dan eventually found Jane, but by then she was married to Ham, and they had had a child. She ended up in New Mexico married to a former outlaw (Noah Emmerich) who saved her from a white slaver (Ewan McGregor? As Jane is attending to his injuries, Ham tells her that "the Bishop Boys are coming". She finds herself in the gang's cross-hairs once again when Ham stumbles home riddled with bullets after dueling with the Boys and their relentless mastermind Colin. Music is by Marcello De Francisci and Lisa Gerrard and cinematography is by Mandy Walker. Dan digs a shallow trench in Jane's front yard, and they fill this with jars containing kerosene, nails and pieces of glass. Realizing that she is going to need help in order to defend her home and family from the Bishops, as Ham's injuries have rendered him helpless, Jane takes her daughter to a place of safety, with a woman friend whom she trusts. Portman has to defend him, and she rounds up Edgerton, who settled in the area after he found out what happened to his former fiancée, to help her protect them. Storyline. Jane Got A Gun had a long a miserable journey to its much belated release. He travelled from state to state trying to find her, showing her photograph in every town. They cross paths with a visionary French producer while performing in Paris. Jane Got a Gun is so wholly dull that it squanders solid performances from Natalie Portman and Joel Edgerton. She finds herself in the gang's cross-hairs once again when Ham stumbles home riddled with bullets after dueling with the Boys and their relentless mastermind Colin. Mintzer also said "A handful of plot twists are not enough to compensate for an overtly heavy, often dreary affair that rides straight into the final standoff with little elegance and a wagon train of pathos. Jane Got a Gun. William is a young man who is soon to be a successful prosecutor falls into a dark trap of sex and late night parties, where he falls head over heels in love with Meadow, but this love ... See full summary ». [32] The Weinstein Company then acquired the film, with plans of releasing the film in Europe first prior to the U.S. It's not an action-packed film, but it delivers well when it gets to the climax. (985) IMDb 5.9 1 h 37 min 2016 X-Ray R. Natalie Portman stars as a mother and wife fighting in the rugged western plains to defend her family from being massacred at the hands of a ruthless and violent gang.
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