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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Turner Home Ent
Salesrank: 3254
Released: May 17, 2005 |
| Our Price: $3.28 |
| Used Price: $2.88 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Between somewhere and nowhere in the untamed West is the small town of Refuge. There, neither the sheriff nor his deputy carry a sidearm. There's no jail either, because shooting, carousing and bad blood are not in the town's character. What peaceful folks live there? Wild Bill Hickok. Doc Holliday. Jesse James. Billy the Kid. All long dead. All mysteriously given a chance to undo their violent pasts in Purgatory. All put to a stern test when Blackjack and his ornery gang ride into town.
Description of Purgatory:
Purgatory is a down-and-dirty Western with a twist The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling would have loved. A band of 19th-century desperadoes, led by the monstrous Blackjack Britton (Eric Roberts), takes a wrong turn while fleeing a posse and rides into an otherworldly, off-the-map town called Refuge. Sedate, almost repressed, and guarded by an unarmed sheriff (Sam Shepard), Refuge is a weird haven of hospitality with no jail, a literate shopkeeper (J.D. Souther), an erudite dandy of a doctor (Randy Quaid), a restless deputy (Donnie Wahlberg), and a beautiful young woman (Amelia Heinle) with no apparent family. In short order, Blackjack figures Refuge is his for the plundering. But the youngest of his gang, the innocent Sonny (Brad Rowe), slowly realizes the town's residents are, in fact, dead legends of the American West--Wild Bill Hickok (Shepard), Doc Holliday (Quaid), Jesse James (Souther), among others--spending a violence-free interim before being taken to Heaven (or Hell if they fail). A purely fun if slightly hokey piece of fanciful adventure, Purgatory's colorful cast plays the whole thing straight and gives this made-for-cable film (directed by Uli Edel of Last Exit to Brooklyn) some exciting, six-gun grit and emotional authenticity. --Tom Keogh
Purgatory Reviews:
Purgatory DVD 
2009-06-24 - A great movie. I liked the different twist of the western. Actors were great. I have watched it several times. Definitely a keeper.
Anniversary present
2009-06-01 - Exactly what I ordered. Brand new as advertised. I bought this for my husband as one of his anniversary presents. He has loved the movie for years, but I have had a hard time finding it, until now.
Purgatory
2009-04-22 - Loved it! It's one of my favorite westerns. It's hard to believe that it was a TNT movie.
great movie to buy
2009-03-16 - well even if you dont like to watch westerns like me you will love this movie.... A+++++
Good western with a splash of horror 
2009-01-13 - Purgatory is a very good combination of the classic western with a splash of horror that separates this movie from other westerns. There was just enough action and intrigue to make the movie hold our interest. We recommend it to anyone who likes westerns but has aleady seen Randolf, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood time and time again.
