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Box office. $10,452,012. The Newton Boys is a 1998 American Western crime film directed by Richard Linklater, who co-wrote the screenplay with Claude Stanush and Clark Lee Walker. It is based on Stanush's 1994 book of the same name, which tells the true story of the Newton Gang, a family of bank and train robbers from Uvalde, Texas.
The Newton Boys: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, Gail Cronauer. The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Richard Linklater
- 1998-03-27
Mar 27, 1998 · 122 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1998. Roger Ebert. March 27, 1998. 3 min read. The Newton boys were the most successful bank robbers in American history, up until the savings and loan bandits of the 1980s. Operating in the Roaring ’20s, they hit as many as 200 banks and then pulled off the nation’s biggest train robbery, a mail train heist in ...
The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the oldest of them, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers and execute the greatest train robbery in American history five years later. The four Newton ...
The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the oldest of them, Willis, realizes that there’s no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers and execute the greatest train robbery in American history five years later.
- (7.5K)
- Detour Filmproduction, 20th Century Fox
- Richard Linklater
The Newton Boys is a 1998 American Western crime film directed by Richard Linklater, who co-wrote the screenplay with Claude Stanush and Clark Lee Walker. It is based on Stanush's 1994 book of the same name, which tells the true story of the Newton Gang, a family of bank and train robbers from Uvalde, Texas.
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The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence. Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become a bank robbers. Soon the family agrees.
