Don't Come Knocking is a 2005 film, a comedy-drama road movie directed by German director Wim Wenders and written by Wenders and actor/playwright Sam Shepard. The two had previously collaborated on the film Paris, Texas. It was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Shepard stars as Howard Spence, an aging, hard-living Western movie star, who, disgusted with his life, flees by horse from the set of his latest western filming in the desert outside Moab, Utah. He hits the road looking for refuge in his past, traveling to his hometown of Elko, Nevada and, eventually, to Butte, Montana,... looking for a woman he left behind twenty years before when he was filming a movie there. Spence is doggedly pursued by Mr. Sutter , a humorless representative of the company insuring Spence's latest film, whose mission is to return Spence to the set to finish filming the movie. Also converging on Butte is a young woman named Sky , returning her late mother's ashes to her hometown and conducting a search of her own. The film features cameo appearances by George Kennedy as a beleaguered movie director, and Tim Matheson and Julia Sweeney as movie producers.
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| Release date: | May 19, 2005 |
| Directed by: | Wim Wenders |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 122 Minutes |
| Producer: | Karsten Brünig, Peter Schwartzkopff, In-Ah Lee |
| Editor: | Peter Przygodda, Oli Weiss, Peter Przygodda |
| Music by: | T-Bone Burnett |
| Cinematography: | Franz Lustig |
| Screenplay by: | Sam Shepard, Wim Wenders |
| Estimated budget: | $11,000,000 |
| Genre: | Western, Musical |