Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Brokeback Mountain rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.7/10· 414K votes

Rotten Tomatoes88%

Metacritic87%

TMDb7.8/10· 8K votes

With 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.7/10 on IMDb and 87/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Brokeback Mountain

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

Cast of Brokeback Mountain

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  Heath Ledger

  as Ennis Del Mar

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  Jake Gyllenhaal

  as Jack Twist

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  Michelle Williams

  as Alma Beers

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  Anne Hathaway

  as Lureen Newsome

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  Randy Quaid

  as Joe Aguirre

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  Linda Cardellini

  as Cassie Cartwright

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  Anna Faris

  as Lashawn Malone

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  David Harbour

  as Randall Malone

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  Roberta Maxwell

  as Jack's Mother

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  Kate Mara

  as Alma Del Mar Jr. (age 19)

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  Peter McRobbie

  as John Twist

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  Graham Beckel

  as L.D. Newsome

Brokeback Mountain facts

Budget

$14M

Box office

$178M

Our take on Brokeback Mountain

Ang Lee's 2005 drama traces two men in 1960s Wyoming who forge a deep emotional and physical bond that endures for decades, even as they marry and raise families of their own. Adapted with restraint, it treats longing and repression as landscape, letting the wide Western spaces mirror lives lived in silence and compromise. Lee favors quiet gesture over declaration, so the romance accumulates weight through what goes unsaid. It suits viewers drawn to intimate, character-led drama and patient emotional storytelling rather than plot momentum. Tender and quietly devastating, the film rewards those who let its slow-burning ache settle in. Expect heartbreak more than resolution.