Summary
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
Good for
- Date night
- Friends night
- Teens
Skip it if
- You want fast pacing
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+22)
Critics 89Audiences 67GoodWatch 70
Tomatometer98%
Metascore80
IMDb6.8
Audience score65%
Running time
1 h 41 min
A typical length for documentaries, +5 min on the typical 96
typical 96101Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country, rent or buy in 1 more
Released
2009
November 18, 2009
17 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
Directing · 2
- Lucien Castaing-Taylor Director, Director of Photography, Editor
- Ilisa Barbash Director, Producer, Editor
Editing · 1
- Patrick Lindenmaier Colorist, Thanks
Sound · 2
- Ernst Karel Sound Editor, Sound Mixer, Thanks
- Kevin J. Colver Sound Recordist
Other crew · 79
- Michael Jackson Thanks
- Lodge Kerrigan Thanks
- Claire Denis Thanks
- Stan Brakhage Thanks
- Peter Hutton Thanks
- Sharon Lockhart Thanks
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