The film tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway and Heath Ledger.Winner of four BAFTAs 2006, including Best Film, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Screenplay – Adapted and the David Lean Award for DirectionWinner of four Golden Globe Awards 2005, including Best Screenplay, Best Motion Picture and Best DirectorWinner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture, 2005 Venice International Film FestivalJack Twist and Ennis del Mar live hard and lonely lives as ranch hands in the wild, unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. They are 'country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered and tough-spoken', glad to have found one another's company where none had been expected. But suddenly companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain: something not looked for, something deadly …The short fiction Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx is a top-notch narrative that delves into the lives of two country boys in the wild, unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. Their companionship unexpectedly evolves into something more on Brokeback Mountain, a transformation that is as unexpected as it is deadly.For fans of Elizabeth Strout (Tell Me Everything), Cormac Mccarthy (All the Pretty Horses), Larry Mcmurtry (All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers), Hernan Diaz (In the Distance), and Percival L. Everett (James).
