The Hi-Lo Country (1999)

Big-screen dramas tend to concentrate on the more fiery emotions. For every movie about hate there's two about love - yet there are hardly any about friendship. In The Hi-Lo Country, Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup conspire to create a believable friendship that's so fierce, it overshadows their relationships with their girlfriends, as well as their enemies. They clearly love each other (in the brotherly sense) but are such macho, hard-drinking, cow-handling lugs that they're never able to express it. So much so, that when Big Boy shacks up with the object of Pete's unrequited love (Arquette), the two never mention the friction this causes.

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