The Outsider is a 2002 Western film starring Tim Daly and Naomi Watts. The film is based on Penelope Williamson's novel. Similar to Angel and the Badman where John Wayne plays a wounded outlaw who is sheltered by a Quaker family. In the Montana of the late 19th century, wounded outlaw Johnny Gault is given refuge by widowed sheep farmer, a pacifist Mormon Rebecca Yoder . The two enter into a relationship which is forbidden since he is an "outsider" from their religion and way of life. She is shunned from the fold until she is ready to confess her sins from this illicit union and be forgiven.... She decides she must go back to her old way of living. When the time comes for her to do so, she is not able to walk away from her new life with Johnny. She leaves the meeting that had been set up and runs back to Johnny. In attempt to help Johnny in a shoot out, Rebecca is hit by an enemy's bullet. She eventually recovers and they live happily ever after as they ride off .
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| Release date: | November 10, 2002 |
| Directed by: | Randa Haines |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 119 Minutes |
| Genre: | Western |