Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film based on the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s. The cast includes Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Joseph Cotten, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Masur, Terry O'Quinn, Mickey Rourke, and Willem Dafoe, in his first film role. There were major setbacks in the film's production due to cost and time overruns, negative press, and rumors about director Michael Cimino's allegedly overbearing directorial style. It is... generally considered one of the biggest box office bombs of all time. It opened to poor reviews and earned less than $3 million domestically , eventually contributing to the collapse of its studio, United Artists, and effectively destroying the reputation of Cimino, previously one of the ascendant directors of Hollywood owing to his celebrated 1978 film The Deer Hunter, which had won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director in 1979.
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| Release date: | November 19, 1980 |
| Directed by: | Michael Cimino |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 149 Minutes |
| Producer: | Joann Carelli |
| Editor: | Lisa Fruchtman, Gerald B. Greenberg, William H. Reynolds, Tom Rolf |
| Music by: | David Mansfield |
| Cinematography: | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| Screenplay by: | Michael Cimino |
| Estimated budget: | $44,000,000 |
| Genre: | Western |