The Newton Boys

Synopsis: 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.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Director(s): Richard Linklater

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, Gail Cronauer

Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment


IMDB:: 6.1
Metacritic:: 57
Rotten Tomatoes:: 63%

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: PG-13
Year:: 1998
: 122 min
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[Ragtime music playing]
JESS:
I'll get this ear,
and you get on.
Whoa.
JOE:
Let me get my seat.
Whoa now.
-You got him?
-I got him.
You got him? All right, go!
JOE:
Whoo-haw!
JESS:
Let him know who you are, boy!
Yeah, boy!
You got him,Joe! You got him!
JOE:
Whoa,whoa.
JESS:
That's it,Joe!
WlLLlS:
Kid looks pretty good.
JESS:
Well, hell...
Yeah, I taught him
everything he knows.
JESS:
Whoo!
WlLLlS:
How's the war?
JESS:
Well, it was all right.
How's prison?
WlLLlS:
Glad to be out.
JESS:
I'll bet. Dock still in?
WlLLlS:
They might just let him
out of jail some day...
if he'd stop trying to escape.
JESS:
You would have done
pretty good there...
if you hadn't pulled leather.
JOE:
Like hell I did.
I ain't never touched
a saddle horn in my life.
Howdy,Willis.
WlLLlS:
Little brotherJoe done
went and shot up like a weed.
JOE:
It happens that way.
You wanna try a ride?
WlLLlS:
Hell, no. I leave that
to your big brotherJess here.
Say,what is the going rate
these days...
for getting your brains
beat out on the saddle?
JESS:
Same as always.
$1.00 a day, beans, and hay.
JOE:
How long you been out?
WlLLlS:
About a year.
-Doing what?
-White boy picking cotton.
JOE:
Ma's gonna be happy to see you!
Hey, Ma! Will's home!
WlLLlS:
Pa around?
JESS:
Oh, no.
I ain't seen him in weeks.
He's off chasing money ponds
andfritter trees, as always.
WlLLlS:
That'd be
James W. Newton, all right.
Everybody says he's a good man.
Just can't nobody figure out
what he's goodfor.
[Sizzling]
WlLLlS:
Mm-mmm.
I been dreaming about
your squirrel dumplings...
forfour years now.
MA:
That's the last one, son.
You almostfinished breaking
that Ferguson colt?
JOE:
Yes, ma'am.
He ain't that tough.
I reckon we'll have about
$10 by the end of the week.
JESS:
Yeah, he still owes us
fourfrom last week.
MA:
You gonna go get it?
JESS:
Yeah, I will.
JOE:
Willis,you gonna stay on?
You can help me and Jess
break a few horses.
MA:
You let Willis
finish his dinner.
WlLLlS:
Naw, little brother,
I'm just staying a bit.
Besides, I ain't horse crazy
like you boys.
JESS:
It's nice to see
you ain't changed,Willis.
WlLLlS:
You should've seen her, Mom.
We was all set up.
Talking about getting married,
living on the 40 acres...
the whole bit.
And then some old jealous rat
went and told her old man...
that I'd been in a penitentiary,
and that was it.
Ffft. Cut me off,
couldn't see her no more.
Oh, he still wanted me to stay
on and work his crop.
Hell, I was the best
cotton picker he ever had.
Just didn't want
his beautiful daughter...
hooked up with an ex-con.
A man gonna tell me I ain't
good enough for his daughter...
but I'm good enough
to work his crop?
I said the hell with you.
MA:
No, it ain'tfair, son.
Maybe you should've stayed on,
tried to work it out.
How?
How, Mom?
What, like I tried to
work it out up in Cottonwood...
when them folks
that known me all my life...
stood up and testified
against me in a court of law...
and I ain't done nothing?
I'm gonna work some things out
all right. You just watch me.
And if it ain'tfair
when it's all said and done...
it's gonna be unfair
on my side of the fence.
[Fiddle music]
GlRLS:
[Singing]
Guide us to Thy side, Lord.
Guide us to Thy side.
The pathway of the righteous...
Can have no earthly load.
What good are gold and silver...
When the devil wins your soul?
Guide us to Thy side, Lord.
Guide us to Thy side.
Straight wages
God won't pay you...
His hours,they are long...
But He helps those
that help themselves...
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