The Alamo is a 2004 American war film about the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. The film was directed by Texan John Lee Hancock, produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Mark Johnson, and distributed by Touchstone Pictures. The screenplay is credited to Hancock, John Sayles, Stephen Gaghan, and Leslie Bohem. In contrast to the earlier 1960 film, the 2004 film attempts to depict the political points of view of both the Mexican and Texan sides; Santa Anna is a more prominent character. The film received negative reviews by critics and was a major box office bomb. It is... officially the second biggest box office 'bomb' in cinema history. The film begins in March 1836 in the Texas town of San Antonio de Bexar , site of the Alamo, where bodies of Texan defenders and Mexican attackers are strewn over the Alamo. The film then flashes back to a year earlier. Sam Houston attends a party where he tries to persuade people to migrate to Texas. He meets with David Crockett , recently defeated for reelection to Congress.
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| Release date: | March 27, 2004 |
| Directed by: | John Lee Hancock |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 137 Minutes |
| Producer: | Ron Howard, Mark Johnson |
| Editor: | Eric L. Beason |
| Music by: | Carter Burwell |
| Cinematography: | Dean Semler |
| Screenplay by: | Leslie Bohem, Stephen Gaghan, John Lee Hancock |
| Estimated budget: | $145,000,000 |
| Genre: | Western, Action |