(rated R, 115 mins.) A story about how all those ghosts in your closet eventually do catch up. It’s a wintry landscape in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the making/building/gold pioneering days of California. Dillon (Peter Mullan) is the head honcho pioneer who defied the harsh winter in search of gold many years ago. Having since gained unimaginable riches, he runs a thriving mining town called Kingdom Come. Dalglish (West Bentley), a surveyor, looking to expand the Central Pacific Railroad, threatens the future of Kingdom Come but more than that, Dillon has his hands full when he discovers that money doesn’t matter. Instead his greed is blinded in the form of two women (Nastassja Kinski and Sarah Polley) who surface, managing to rock his world (but not in the same way as a gold nugget). A slightly boring, slow moving tale that takes awhile for the past (through flashbacks) to make sense in weaving with the present. Unfortunately, it would take 30 seconds to tell you the twist that unravels painfully over 2 hours.
