a5c7b9f00b The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence. Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes that there&#39;s no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become a bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers, and five years later execute the greatest train robbery in American history. &quot;The Newton Boys&quot;, Richard Linkletter&#39;s account on this family of criminals, was a surprise when it was shown on cable, recently. The strength of the story, which was co-written by the director, is based on a real family of bandits who never becamefamousother notorious criminals of the era. Perhaps, because they were basically farm boys, they never got involved in killing their victims, yet they manage to rob a string of banks that had a simple type of safe. Once bigger, and more complicated devices were adopted, it ended the way they did business.<br/><br/>Willis, the brain of the organization, learns from someone he meets on the road when he leaves his rural home, how to blow a bank safe with the help of explosives. Willis, in turn, gets his three brothers involved in helping him for the different jobs throughout the middle of the country, and even in Canada. Willis, who falls in love with the attractive employee of a hotel news and tobacco stand, is a successful robber whose luck runs out when he tries his hand at robbing a train that is carrying about three million dollars, a fatal miscalculation on his part.<br/><br/>The film is fun to watch because of the easy chemistry among all the brothers. Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, and Vincent D&#39;Onofrio appear to be having a great time with their characters and with each other. Joanna Margulies is a lovely Louise, the woman who falls in love with Willis. Dwight Yoakam is seenthe man who teaches Willis his tradea bank robber.<br/><br/>At the end of the film we watch one of the brothers appearinga guest of &quot;The Tonight Show&quot;he looked then. All brothers, it appears went straight after their brush with the law and lived long lives. Richard Linkletter did a film that is fun to watchit is never heavy, and keeps moving at a quick pace. as a western movie fan i have been somewhat disappointed in the low numbers of western films made from the 90&#39;s to &#39;06- and surprisingly i just seen &quot;The Newton Boys&quot; for the first time while channel hopping a couple of months ago on HBO- and after seeing the movie i immediately logged onto IMDb.com to get the low- and i just wanted to say the movie in every way is splendid and entertaining throughout. there is comedy touches blazing side by side with drama- and the best part it is based on a true story. and when the movie ends DO NOT TURN THE CHANNEL- the extra/ending credits will fulfill any &quot;junkies&quot; need for a fixthey have interviews with the real newtons- robbers/criminals yes but the movie is done in such a way that you never have any hatred towards them- one hell of a thumbs up for Linklater- one very smooth job- and while i watched the movie 3 times i didn&#39;t know it was D Yoakum playing the part of Glass until i read the IMDb reviews and I&#39;m also a yoakum fanwell- so my hats off to the D for one fine acting performance and to all the castthis is one western that has no boring moments- i just wish we could be rewarded with a movie with this much satisfaction on a monthly basis–––Tom If Mr. Linklater is not entirely at ease with action sequences (or with the obligatory having-fun montage once the brothers become successful), he still makes this (after ''Before Sunrise'' and ''Suburbia'') another admirable directorial stretch.
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