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Wyatt Earp
Directed by
Lawrence Kasdan
PG-13
1994
3h 11m
Western
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6.7
31%
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Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family. The movie shows us the good times and the bad times of one of the West's most famous individuals.
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Cast of Wyatt Earp
Kevin Costner
Wyatt Earp / Producer
Dennis Quaid
Doc Holliday
Gene Hackman
Nicholas Earp
David Andrews
James Earp
Linden Ashby
Morgan Earp
Jeff Fahey
Ike Clanton
Joanna Going
Josie Marcus
Mark Harmon
Sheriff Johnny Behan
Michael Madsen
Virgil Earp
Catherine O'Hara
Allie Earp
Bill Pullman
Ed Masterson
Isabella Rossellini
Big Nose Kate
Tom Sizemore
Bat Masterson
JoBeth Williams
Bessie Earp
Mare Winningham
Mattie Blaylock
James Gammon
Mr. Sutherland
Rex Linn
Frank McLaury
Randle Mell
John Clum
Adam Baldwin
Tom McLaury
Annabeth Gish
Urilla Sutherland
Lewis Smith
Curly Bill Brocius
Ian Bohen
Young Wyatt
Betty Buckley
Virginia Earp
Alison Elliott
Lou Earp
Todd Allen
Sherm McMasters
Mackenzie Astin
Francis O'Rourke
Jim Caviezel
Warren Earp
Karen Grassle
Mrs. Sutherland
John Dennis Johnston
Frank Stillwell
Téa Leoni
Sally
Martin Kove
Ed Ross
Jack Kehler
Bob Hatch
Kirk Fox
Pete Spence
Norman Howell
Johnny Ringo
Boots Southerland
Marshal Fred White
James 'Scotty' Augare
Indian Charlie
Gabriel Folse
Billy Clanton
Kris Kamm
Billy Claiborne
John Lawlor
Judge Spicer
Michael McGrady
John Shanssey
Ben Zeller
Dr. Seger
Rockne Tarkington
Stable Hand
David Doty
Mayor Wilson
Matt O'Toole
Gyp Clements
Brett Cullen
Saddle Tramp
Owen Roizman
Danny
Lawrence Kasdan
Gambler / Director / Writer / Producer
Matt Beck
McGee
Dan Gordon
Writer
Jim Wilson
Producer
Wyatt Earp Ratings & Reviews
Jeremiah
June 29, 2025
Plays out like a Wikipedia article on Wyatt Earp. A series of episodic keynotes paragraphs on his life with little connective tissue tying them together with a ridiculous 3 hour runtime. Dennis Quaid is almost unrecognizable doing his own thing on Doc Holliday that is brash and gruff and in the very least sets it apart from Val Kilmer’s soft-spoken, gentle, and stylistically earnest take. I didn’t mind it but definitely prefer Kilmer’s, if for anything that it’s just way more memorable. Everyone else is almost a non-character. Never getting all that much to do beyond their standard tropes. Gene Hackman’s 15 min of screen time are noteworthy, giving us that Gene-reliable acting class. But yeah. Not much else is really to be said about almost any character. In Tombstone (the movie), practically every bad guy is memorable and way more defined. In this one I honestly couldn’t even tell you who was who, and because of Tombstone I’m very familiar with who they are and their names. By far the film’s biggest problem though is Kevin Costner. Whom the film hinges everything on. He shows up playing a 20-year-old version of his character, which is hilarious as the actor is 38 (I looked it up) and it’s sooooo apparent. Here he’s giving his best gee golly, proper and gentleman version of the character before a tragedy sets him in a spiral and he comes out on the other side stoic and matter-of-fact. So stoic it gets so boring and so repetitive and so uninteresting. Costner isn’t really known for his range but damn, his range in 95% of this leans 1 degree off-center in either direction at the most. And because of that he comes off as almost a non-personality in a movie that’s all about his character. It’s pretty hard not to compare this to Tombstone (the movie) as it came out almost the same time and covers the same subject. Everything about Tombstone works, its colorful cast of characters that are fleshed out and memorable. Its focus on a snapshot in Earp’s life. Its grandiose dialogue and character interactions, characters having. Its great action and just a general air of macho badassery, next to Predator I feel Tombstone is one of the most macho badass movies ever. But even still, its human element is still way better even, Kurt Russell plays Earp like an actual human with feeling and range. All the side characters are distinctive and memorable. Wyatt Earp (the movie) has almost none of that, it’s competent in many ways but as a whole it falls flat as just being a decent movie. And it’s nuts to think that anyone might feel this is better than Tombstone (but you know they exist, those rubes.)
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Wyatt Earp tries to confront us with something weightier than the pleasures of old-fashioned heroism. Unfortunately, it ends up offering something sketchier: a psychodramatic hero without a center.
Entertainment Weekly
Ty Burr
Wyatt Earp presents unvarnished historical realism as a kind of ultimate Truth, and it might actually work if Kasdan didn't keep piling on the Western-movie clichés.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Gorgeously shot and meticulously designed, Wyatt Earp is big, solemn -- and barely alive.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
What you shouldn't do is turn [Wyatt Earp's] story into a solemn biopic, grinding relentlessly, without selectivity or point of view, through a rootless and episodic life from adolescence to old age.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Harper Barnes
Wyatt Earp has a lot going for it, including what is possibly the best performance of his movie career by Dennis Quaid as Doc Holliday... But it's more than three hours long and god-awful heavy-handed, so it tends to wear you down.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
While Kurt Russell brought out the hustler and the self-interested businessman in Earp in Tombstone, Kasdan's more grandiose and far superior Wyatt Earp is undeniably as close as Hollywood has yet come to getting it right.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Here there is action or there is plot, but the two are never simultaneous as in most great Westerns. In between the buffalo stampedes and scenic panoramas, Wyaft Earp trades in contradictions instead of character.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
If Wyatt Earp isn't quite Heaven's Other Gate, it's as close as anyone's likely to get to repeating that classic horse-opera folly.
New York Daily News
Dave Kehr
With a half-formed hero at its center, the movie never comes together. Uncertainly paced, it meanders for most of its length, spelling out its themes instead of absorbing them into strong characters and expressive imagery.
Newsday
Jack Mathews
In their attempt to create a full psychological portrait of the legendary frontier lawman Wyatt Earp, writer-director-producer Lawrence Kasdan and star-producer Kevin Costner have managed something I would have thought impossible. They've made him boring.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Mike Steele
This physically imposing, but pretentiously ponderous Western, has less to do with the heroic than the passing gas of bloat.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Not exactly a failure, Wyatt Earp is more accurately described as simply not the picture it wants so hard to be.
L.A. Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Wyatt Earp is essentially a biopic, but it's a biopic in search of a subject. For all its attention to period detail and the many stages in a picturesque life, the film can't decide whether to honor the man, the myth or both.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Michael H. Price
The running time of three hours and change is frankly unjustified by a film that values scenery and historical minutiae over suspense and supporting characterizations.
Detroit Free Press
Frank Bruni
It's refreshing to have a filmmaker treat you with this kind of intelligence. It would be nice if he did a better job of entertaining you in the process.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
Kevin Costner's earnest act grows tiresome, and the first half of this three-hour epic is dreary as filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan tries his hand at updating a Western legend.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Wyatt Earp is a fascinating ride to a West where darkness and heroism mingle, a triumph for Kasdan, Costner, Quaid and the company.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Tempering its violence with tragic awareness, it's handsome, full of sweep, weight and integrity, long on character, downplaying any temptation to histrionics. Actually, it's a quite daring performance Costner unfurls.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
If you love westerns (as I do), you'll be more than happy to settle in with Wyatt Earp, to savor its epic deliberateness, to wonder, along with Kasdan and Costner, if it really happened that way.
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