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The Claim is a 2000 British Western/romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is based on the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman. The film's tagline is Everything has a price.

Plot summary

In 1867, Daniel Dillon is an Irish immigrant who settled in California during the Gold Rush of '49 and has done quite well for himself. Dillon owns nearly every business of consequence in the town of Kingdon Come; if someone wants to dig for gold, rent a room, open a bank account, or even order a drink, they have to go to Dillon to do it. One of the few profitable enterprises in town that he doesn't own is the brothel, which is operated by Lucia, Dillon's lover. But Dillon sees that his hold on the town is threatened when Dalglish arrives in Kingdon Come.

Dalglish is a surveyor with the Central Pacific Railroad, which wants to put a train through Kingdon Come. Dillon believes that Dalglish's plans could pull control of Kingdon Come out of his hands, and he's willing to go to any lengths to see that this doesn't happen. Arriving in town the same time as Dalglish are two women, the beautiful but ailing Elena Burn and her lovely teenage daughter Hope; their presence is deeply troubling for Dillon, for they are the keys to a dark secret Dillon has kept from the people of Kingdom Come for nearly twenty years.

Main cast

Peter Mullan
- Daniel Dillon
Milla Jovovich
- Lucia
Wes Bentley
- Dalglish
Nastassja Kinski
- Elena Burn/Elena Dillon
Sarah Polley
- Hope Burn
Julian Richings
- Bellanger
Sean McGinley - Sweetley
Duncan Frasier - Crocker

Trivia

Filming had to be halted when director Michael Winterbottom got frostbite in his ears.
This is the second film that Michael Winterbottom had directed from a novel by Thomas Hardy; the first was the romance film Jude
(1996
).

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