Brokeback Mountain: Book vs. Movie
Ang Lee's 2005 film Brokeback Mountain adapts Annie Proulx's short story, first published in 1997. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal play Ennis and Jack, whose summer tending sheep begins a relationship that endures across years of separation.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Annie Proulx
- Year
- 1997
- Pages
- 64Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 1 hr 4 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Campbell Scott
Ennis del Mar takes a summer job tending sheep with Jack Twist, expecting wages and hard work rather than an attachment he cannot explain away. Their closeness survives the season, but neither has a safe place for it in the lives they build afterward. Across brief meetings and long separations, the two men confront what they want from each other and what fear allows them to ask.
- Director
- Ang Lee
- Writer
- Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
- Year
- 2005
- Runtime
- 2 hr 14 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway
- Genre
- Drama, LGBTQ-related, Romance
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Hired to tend sheep in the Wyoming mountains, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist begin a relationship neither knows how to carry into ordinary life. When the summer ends, they leave for separate jobs and marriages, but a reunion draws them back together. Their occasional trips offer brief freedom while secrecy and incompatible hopes place strain on the families waiting at home.
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