The Alamo (2004 film)
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| Directed by | John Lee Hancock |
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Ron Howard Mark Johnson |
| Written by | John Lee Hancock Leslie Bohem Stephen Gaghan |
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Dennis Quaid Billy Bob Thornton Jason Patric Patrick Wilson Emilio Echevarría Jordi Mollà |
| Music by | Carter Burwell |
| Cinematography | John O'Connor Dean Semler |
| Edited by | Eric L. Beason |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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137 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $107 million |
| Box office | $25.8 million |
The Alamo is a 2004 American war film about the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. The film was directed by Texan John Lee Hancock, produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Mark Johnson, distributed by Touchstone Pictures, and starring Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston, Billy Bob Thornton as David Crockett, and Jason Patric as Jim Bowie.
The screenplay is credited to Hancock, John Sayles, Stephen Gaghan, and Leslie Bohem. In contrast to the earlier 1960 film of the same name, the 2004 film attempts to depict the political points of view of both the Mexican and Texan sides; Santa Anna is a more prominent character. The film received mixed reviews by critics and was a massive box-office flop.
The film begins in March 1836 in the Mexican State of Coahuila y Tejas town of San Antonio de Bexar (now Downtown San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas), site of the Alamo, where bodies of Texan defenders and Mexican attackers are strewn over the Alamo. The film then flashes back to a year earlier. Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid) attends a party where he tries to persuade people to migrate to Texas. He meets with David Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), recently defeated for reelection to Congress. Houston explains to Crockett that as an immigrant to Texas, Crockett will receive 640 acres (2.6 km2) [a square mile] of his own choosing. Crockett, with a grin, pointedly asks Houston whether this new republic is going to need a president.
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