Unforgiven - Enzian Theater

Gene Hackman Tribute Film

***Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Clint Eastwood) and Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman).

After escaping death by the skin of her teeth, the horribly disfigured prostitute, Delilah Fitzgerald, and her appalled and equally furious co-workers summon up the courage to seek retribution in 1880s Wyoming’s dangerous town of Big Whiskey. With a hefty bounty on the perpetrators’ heads, triggered by the tough Sheriff “Little Bill” Daggett’s (Gene Hackman in a legendary Oscar®-winning performance) insufficient sense of justice, the infamous former outlaw and now destitute Kansas hog farmer, William Munny (Clint Eastwood), embarks on a murderous last mission to find the men behind the hideous crime. Along with his old partner-in-crime, Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman), and the brash but inexperienced young gunman, the “Schofield Kid”, Munny enters a perilous world he has renounced many years ago, knowing that he walks right into a deadly trap; however, he still needs to find a way to raise his motherless children. Now, blood demands blood. Who is the hero, and who is the villain?

1992, USA, 130 minutes, Directed by Clint Eastwood, Rated R

“Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood face off in one of the best westerns ever made -- make that the best western ever made!”
– Christopher Null, FILM CRITIC.COM
“This dark, melancholic film is a reminder-never more necessary than now-of what the American cinema is capable of, in the way of expressing a mature, morally complex and challenging view of the world.”
– Dave Kehr, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“Unforgiven is the most provocative western of Eastwood's career, and with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris along for the ride, it's also the most potently acted.”
– Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
“Arguably the last of the great movie westerns... The real star of the show here is Gene Hackman, playing the psychotic town sheriff who stands in the way of the trio's bounty.”
– Leigh Paatsch, HERALD SUN (AUSTRALIA)
“Under its leathery hide is a genuine compulsion to de-romanticize Western gunfighting. Every bullet in this movie matters, and by the end Munny's alcohol-fueled, satanic purposefulness is shocking”
– Michael Sragow, THE NEW YORKER