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The Color of Lightning Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Dec. 11, 2009

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The Color of Lightning

Ridley Scott, Diana Ossana, Tony Scott, Michael Costigan, Larry McMurtry

N/A Drama N/A

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Plot

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Plot
After freed slave Britt Johnson moves his family to Young County, TX at the end of the Civil War, his family and neighbors are attacked by Comanche and Kiowa, with many of them being taken captive. While Britt waits through the winter before he can set out to rescue his wife and children, Samuel Hammond, a Quaker man preaching nonviolence and an agrarian lifestyle gets sent to the region to be the new Indian Agent. The contrast between Johnson, a pragmatic man of action, and Hammond, an idealist who struggles with the ambiguities of reality, echoes the history of a period when government programs and westward expansion collided, ruinously, with Native cultures.
Drama Western

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The film's writer Larry McMurtry last wrote Joe Bell and Brokeback Mountain.

Director
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Michael Costigan
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott

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Language
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  • Based on the novel "The Color of Lightning" by Paulette Jules.

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The Color of Lightning is coming out to on To Be Announced (TBA) There are 9,459 other movies coming out on the same date, including Insidious: Red Tale, The Rosie Project and Coyote vs. Acme.



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