RIDE WITH THE DEVIL (DVD) ANAMORPHIC W/S 2.35/DOLBY 5.1 SURROUND DVD

Ride With the Devil
A complex tale of uneasy alliances along the Kansas/Missouri border during the Civil War, Ride with the Devil concerns Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich), a proud son of the South ready to fight for the Confederate cause after his father is killed by Union troops. Chiles's best friend, Jake Roedel (Tobey Maguire), joins the Bushwhackers, a group of renegade Southerners aligned with the Confederate Army, even though his family supports the Union cause. The two young men, used to the slow pace and gracious lifestyle of the South's privileged class, are soon confronted with the chaos of battle. Their comrades include valiant leader Black John (James Caviezel), paranoid madman Pitt (Jonathan Rhys Myers), Southern gentleman George (Simon Baker), and Daniel (Jeffrey Wright), a slave from George's plantation. The Bushwhackers hide out in a barn near the home of Sue Lee (singer/songwriter/poet Jewel, in her film debut), a pregnant widow whose husband died in battle three weeks after their marriage. Roedel and Sue Lee begin a chaste romance, but it remains to be seen if the war will permit them to stay together. Adapted from the novel Woe to Live On by Daniel Woodrell, Ride with the Devil was directed by Ang Lee, whose previous project was a very different look at America's past, the 1970s domestic drama The Ice Storm (1997). ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast Skeet Ulrich as Jack Bull Chiles Tobey Maguire as Jake Roedel Jewel as Sue Lee Shelley Jeffrey Wright as Daniel Holt Simon Baker as George Clyde Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Pitt Mackeson James Caviezel as Black John Tom Guiry as Riley Crawford Tom Wilkinson as Orton Brown Jonathan Brandis as Cave Wyatt Matthew Faber as Turner Rawls Stephen Mailer as Babe Hudspeth John Ales as Quantrill Zach Grenier as Mr. Evans Margo Martindale as Wilma Brown Mark Ruffalo as Alf Bowden Celia Weston as Mrs.Clark

Crew Steve Arnold - Art Director Anne Carey - Associate Producer Avy Kaufman - Casting Marit Allen - Costume Designer Robert Huberman - First Assistant Director Ang Lee - Director David R. Ellis - Second Unit Director Tim Squyres - Editor David Linde - Executive Producer Mychael Danna - Composer (Music Score) Alex Steyermark - Musical Direction/Supervision Frederick Elmes - Camera Operator Mark Friedberg - Production Designer James Schamus - Producer Robert F. Colesberry - Producer Ted Hope - Producer Steve Lauberth - Set Designer Stephanie Carroll - Set Designer Jonathan Scott - Set Designer Drew Kunin - Sound/Sound Designer Philip Stockton - Sound Editor James Schamus - Screenwriter Michael Benson - Second Unit Camera Daniel Woodrell - Book Author

Ride With the Devil
This superb character study of Confederate guerilla raiders during the U.S. Civil War is yet another feather in the creative cap of director Ang Lee and his frequent collaborator, screenwriter/producer James Schamus. Lee's works may seem on the surface quite disparate, but just as in his previous films, themes recur here of societal divisions clashing until matriarchal forces triumph over the prevailing-but-crumbling patriarchy. In this case, it's the conflict between rich and poor, free and slave, violent and idealistic, as protagonist Jake (Tobey Maguire) wrestles with the feminine pull of home and family represented by Sue Lee (Jewel Kilcher) versus the male-dominated war he's fighting, one that's increasingly morally compromised and hopeless. As in all of Lee's work, even the supporting characters contain multiple shades of gray and complex nuances (it doesn't get much more intricate than Jeffrey Wright's slave fighting for the Confederacy). Performances are uniformly excellent with, surprisingly, folksinger Jewel a particularly luminous and compelling presence in her screen debut. Although Ride With the Devil (1999) did not receive the warm box-office reception Lee often enjoys, it's a successful, highly recommendable costume drama that serves as a stark, estimable companion to the director's earlier period piece, Sense and Sensibility (1995). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: English, French Sound Processing: DD5.1: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel Additional Features: Jewel music video: "What's Simple Is True" Trailer Production notes Cast and filmmakers Universal web link DVD Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1: Cinemascope MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 139 min   DVD Chapters: Chapter List 0. Chapter List