All Hat

• Rachael Leigh Cook: Chrissie
• Luke Kirby: Ray Dokes
• Keith Carradine: Pete Culpepper
• Lisa Ray: Etta Parr
• Ernie Hudson: Jackson Jones
• David Alpay: Paulie Stanton
• Noam Jenkins: Sonny Stanton
• Joel S. Keller: Dean Calder
• Graham Greene: Jim Burns
• Gary Farmer: Billy Caan
• Stephen McHattie: Earl Stanton
• Michelle Nolden: Gena Stanton
• David Gardner: Homer Parr
• Tracy Wright: Elizabeth Dokes
• Lorne Brass: Dan Rockwell

All Hat is an American- British- Canadian Western comedy from 2007. Directed by Leonard Farlinger, the screenplay was written by Brad Smith on the basis of his own novel.

Action

The Cowboy Ray Dokes is released after a two-year prison sentence. He returns to his hometown and wants to lead a quiet life there. Dokes gets to the entrepreneur Sonny Stanton, who wants to buy the farm of his friend Pete Culpepper indebted to build a golf course. Against these plans is fighting Etta Parr, a former girlfriend of the cowboy.

Dokes learns the Jockey wife Chrissie know, he comes closer. The entrepreneur is stolen a race horse worth ten million dollars. Stanton calls on numerous local residents, their farms to sell him. Dokes developed a plan with the objective of halting Stanton.

Reviews

Philip Marchand wrote in the Toronto Star newspaper of 25 January 2008, Brad Smith follow the familiar formula with " utmost precision ". The plot is still "reasonably convincing" and the pace " tight ". The story is so "thin" as a result of a TV series ("The only problem is did the story feels slight - more like a prolonged episode of a television series than material for a full-blown movie" ).

David Nusair wrote on Reel Film Reviews, the film offers impressive views and sometimes breathtaking camera work, but it would be missing something, which could maintain the viewer's interest for more than a few minutes at a time. The act was designed to " wound ", the characters are too little. Kirby's representation was effective, what would, however, negate the weaknesses of the unconvincing character.

Background

The film was shot in Alliston (Ontario), in Fort Erie ( Ontario) and in Hamilton (Ontario). Its production costs amounted to an estimated 5 million Canadian dollars. On 11 September 2007 the film at the Toronto International Film Festival was shown, which was followed by several other film festivals. In the United States, he was brought in 2008 in a movie theater and otherwise released on DVD.