an great outing must be said! Because this movie is a critic's dream the characters are only likable through lens of caught in a time penned the author of "Lonesome Dove" pushed forward in adaptation to post child support days the interplay of men who are for all intensive purposes heterosexual, but for the nature of a business as well personal relationship struck upon their actions can't be supported! The dishonesty surrounding the courtship must be condemned! Similar subject matter to "Far From Heaven" staring Julianne Moore, however in this one the female characters are after thoughts to the overtly male archetype cowboy or western I'm amazed so well received! Not an indictment killings like that of Matthew Shepard, but a quiet explanation as if with wife & children you'd get away with that? Must be said! Prior reviews hadn't fully prepared me for this particular quiet examination of isolationist America, but if a celebration of gay culture is what you were looking for you'll be disappointed! It's perhaps more properly filed under gender studies, than sexuality I'd given three one half stars, & felt bad, but for otherwise glowing remarks about it!