The Newton Boys is a 1998 drama film based on the true story of the Newton Gang, a family of bank robbers from Uvalde, Texas. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Dwight Yoakam. It was filmed in Austin, Bartlett, New Braunfels, and San Antonio, Texas. Due to a miscarriage of justice Willis Newton was in prison. Afterwards he worked on a farm and was in love with the owner's daughter. Their marriage was confounded when her father was informed that Willis had been a convict. Willis returns to his family's land and tells his mother how the farmer... offered him to stay as a mere worker. Still upset he craves for a chance to escape poverty and goes to town. Willis meets with two criminals named Slim and Glasscock in a western saloon. The proprietor is an Indian chief who got rich when oil was found on his land. Word is the chief would not have even been allowed to enter the saloon as a guest before that. Thus Willis learns that social climbing is possible for him too if only he happens to get to a lot of money somehow in the first place.
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| Release date: | March 27, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Richard Linklater |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 122 Minutes |
| Producer: | Anne Walker-McBay, Laeta Kalogridis, Chris Columbus, Jerry Weintraub, Jeffrey Chernov, Michael Barnathan, Mike Medavoy, Toby Emmerich |
| Editor: | Sandra Adair, Mark Goldblatt, Jim Clark |
| Music by: | Edward D. Barnes, John Powell, Randy Edelman, Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography: | Peter James |
| Screenplay by: | Claude Stanush, Clark Walker, Richard Linklater |
| Estimated budget: | $27,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Newton Boys: Portrait of an Outlaw Gang |
| Genre: | Action, Western |