The Claim [Blu-ray]

The 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy becomes this Western fable in the hands of director Michael Winterbottom. Peter Mullan stars as Daniel Dillon, the richest man in the 1869 California boomtown of Kingdom Come. Twenty years earlier, Dillon struck a Faustian bargain with a mysterious stranger, selling his wife Elena (Nastassja Kinski) and baby daughter Hope (Sarah Polley) for the claim to a gold mine. Using his resources wisely, Dillon has used his mine profits to purch...