Once Upon A Time In The Midlands movie review (2003)
"Once Upon a Time in the Midlands" has a score that sounds familiar, with its echoing hoofbeats, harmonicas, and far-off whistles. It evokes the atmosphere of a Sergio Leone Western, sneaking up under the movie's human comedy and adding a smile. The film is set not in the West (or Spain), but in Nottingham, in the British Midlands, where its lovable working-class characters get involved in a story of love, loss, revenge, clowns and country-Western music. The movie opens on the British version of the Jerry Springer show, with the love-struck Dek (Rhys Ifans) proposing marriage to his longtime ...
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