Brentwood and Joe watch Erich von Stroheim's _Greed (1924)_ (qv), in Canada, during what appears to be summer.
Greed was not released until December of that year, and didn't see any wide release until late January of 1925.
It's also doubtful that it would have made it to Canada any time before then.
After the armoured car robbery, when the boys stop the car and fight about why it had gone so badly, a modern day wheelchair-access drop-down curb is seen.
During the 20s, no such curb would have existed.
They would have been straight across.
| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| 17 May 1998 | USA | USD 10,297,897 |
| 10 May 1998 | USA | USD 10,227,321 |
| 3 May 1998 | USA | USD 10,117,861 |
| 26 April 1998 | USA | USD 9,917,309 |
| 19 April 1998 | USA | USD 9,680,438 |
| 12 April 1998 | USA | USD 9,174,069 |
| 5 April 1998 | USA | USD 7,571,210 |
| 29 March 1998 | USA | USD 4,010,245 |
| Date | Area | Gross | Screens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 March 1998 | USA | USD 4,010,245 | 1,965 |
| Date | Area | Gross | Screens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 1998 | USA | USD 2,303,889 | 1,969 |
| 29 March 1998 | USA | USD 4,010,245 | 1,965 |
This film has a decidedly apparent "family movie" feel with smiling faces, good times, hippety rag time and well dress characters. A lot more like Wally & Beaver than Capone & Dillinger.
The adventure is quite engaging. It is also great to see famous faces back from over twenty years ago!
The Newton Boys were a colorful collection of brothers who robbed banks. In this bizarro world I think we're supposed to be inspired by Willis (Matthew McConaughey, Joe (Skeet Ulrich), Jess (Ethan Hawke), and Doc Newton (Vincent D'Onofrio).
The film is very banal. Bank robbers and postal train robbers, déjà vu, blasé, passé.
Fans of the Director will probably be disappointed in this rather straight telling of the Real-Life, dirt poor Bank Robbers. There is a colorful often made story of Anti-Heroes waiting to be told here, but for some reason, while engaging and fun this Movie kind of disappoints and at the same time is a somewhat amusing, if not a terribly interesting misfire.
It's 1919 Texas. After three years of incarceration for stealing, Willis Newton (Matthew McConaughey) gets into robbing banks and recruits his brothers Joe (Skeet Ulrich) and Jess (Ethan Hawke) into the business.
This was loosely based on the "most successful bank robbers of all time". It was one of the many collaborations Matthew McConaughey did with director Richard Linklater.
Richard Linklater, as a writer and director, loves to let his characters breathe while on screen and confine them to a day's worth of events. However, with The Newton Boys, he attempts to infuse his laidback style with a true crime caper, concerning the Newton Gang, a group of four brothers who robbed banks in the United States during Prohibition.
The Newton Boys (1998): Dir: Richard Linklater / Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Skeet Ulrich, Dwight Yoakam: This is about as boring as a western can get. The best aspect of this film are interviews with the real Newton Boys in the conclusion.
