The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence.
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Slim
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Farmer Williams
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Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes that there'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. Written by Anonymous
Plot Keywords:
bank robber | train | brother brother relationship | explosive | crime spree |Taglines:
Four Brothers. Four Criminals. For The Money... They Would Stop At Nothing. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for violence including bloody aftermath of a shooting, and for language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
27 March 1998 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Newton fiúk See more »Box Office
Budget:
$27,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$4,010,245 (USA) (27 March 1998)Gross:
$10,297,897 (USA) (15 May 1998)Company Credits
Production Co:
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Detour Filmproduction, Newton Boys Ventures See more »
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Written by Turner Layton & Henry Creamer
Performed by Floyd Domino
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While on location for this project, Dwight Yoakam wrote the songs he used for the album "The Long Way Home". See more »Goofs
After the armoured car robbery, when the boys stop the car and fight about why it had gone so badly, a modern day wheelchair-access drop-down curb is seen. During the 20s, no such curb would have existed. They would have been straight across. See more »Crazy Credits
Opening credits play the way they would in a film made durring the silent and early sound period (1920-1940). See more »Connections
Referenced in Siskel & Ebert: Lost in Space/The Spanish Prisoner/Mercury Rising/Kurt & Courtney/Character (1998) See more »Soundtracks
After You've GoneWritten by Turner Layton & Henry Creamer
Performed by Floyd Domino
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In a way, it seems like a waste to gather Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, and Vincent D'Onofrio for this movie, because they should've been able to do something great, although, if it weren't for them, it would have been boring. It is a straightforward assembly of the facts of the incredible run of 80 bank robberies by the Newton brothers. Then they go for the big one, a train robbery of Federal Reserve funds. It is entertaining, but I was most entertained during the running of the credits. Over to the left, they show clips of Joe Newton at about age 79, on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, interspersed with film clips of an interview with Willis Newton in his 80's, both giving their views of what it was like and how they felt about what they had done. After seeing Hollywood's version of their lives, it was interesting to see what they were like in old age.