The Cowboy Way

Jun 3, 1994

1h 42m

★ 5.7

How the East was won.

Overview

Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.

Genres

Action

Comedy

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Western

Production Companies

Imagine Entertainment

Universal Pictures

The Cowboy Way Trailers

Cast

Pepper Lewis

Woody Harrelson

Sonny Gilstrap

Kiefer Sutherland

John Stark

Dylan McDermott

Officer Sam 'Mad Dog' Shaw

Ernie Hudson

Margarette

Marg Helgenberger

Chango

Luis Guzmán

Boca

Angel Caban

Nacho Salazar

Joaquín Martínez

Manny Huerta

Tomas Milian

Teresa Salazar

Cara Buono

NYPD Computer Operator

Allison Janney

Rosa

Karina Arroyave

Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.

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6.3

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7.7

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6.8

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7.2

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4.2

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5.6

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5.6

Men Are Such Fools

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6.6

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0.0

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5.5

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4.8

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6.5

Piccadilly Jim

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6.0

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1.0

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