Returning to the United States and riding through a small town in Texas, stringing two horses behind the one he is riding, he stops to inquire what day it is. Cole is spared the decision to kill the captain, but it is implied the men to whom the captain was turned over will do that. After making the captain his prisoner, he turns him over to a group of Mexican men, including one with whom Cole had previously shared a cell when they were imprisoned by the captain. She, however, decides she must keep her word and though she loves him, she will not go with him.Ĭole sets out to get revenge on the captain who took Blevins' life, as well as to get back his, Lacey's and Blevins' horses.
Cole urges Alejandra to come to Texas with him. Her aunt is confident that Alejandra will keep her word and not get back together with Cole–so much so that she even gives Cole her niece's phone number. While Rawlins returns to his parents' ranch in Texas, Cole attempts to reunite with Alejandra over her family's objections.
The pair are both nearly killed.Īlejandra's aunt frees Cole and Rawlins, on the condition that she never sees them again. Cole and Rawlins are sent to a Mexican prison for abetting Blevins' crimes, where they must defend themselves against dangerous inmates. After Alejandra's father takes her away, Cole and Rawlins are arrested by Mexican police and taken to prison, where they visit Blevins, who has been accused of stealing a horse and of murder, and is killed by a corrupt police captain. Later on, they meet a young aristocrat's daughter, Alejandra Villarreal, with whom Cole falls in love.Ĭole and Rawlins become hired hands for Alejandra's father, who likes their work, but Cole's romantic interest in Alejandra is not welcomed by her wealthy aunt. They encounter a peculiar boy named Jimmy Blevins on the trail to Mexico, whom they befriend but from whom they then separate. He asks his best friend Lacey Rawlins to leave his family ranch in San Angelo, Texas and join him to travel on horseback to cross the border 150 miles south, to seek work in Mexico. In 1949, young cowboy John Grady Cole is rendered homeless after his family's ranch is sold. It grossed $18 million worldwide on a $57 million budget. It premiered on Decemto mostly negative reviews. All the Pretty Horses is a 2000 American Western film produced and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name, and starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz.
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