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* CoolPet: Rafo brings his rooster he named "Macho" along on the trip.
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* TheAlcoholic: Mike is mentioned to be an alcoholic with the "before the booze" line.
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* TheAlcoholic: Mike is mentioned to be an alcoholic with the "before the booze" line. [[spoiler: It's quite possible he took to drinking after his family's death in a car crash.]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: In his younger days, Mike was a rodeo star, until a severe back injury ended his career and forced him into early retirement. [[spoiler: To make things worse, his wife and children died in a car crash sometime after. Both incidents weigh heavily on Mike, even years later.]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: In his younger days, Mike was a rodeo star, until a severe back injury ended his career and forced him into early retirement. [[spoiler: To make things worse, his wife and children died in a car crash sometime after. Both incidents weigh weighed heavily on Mike, even years later.and it's implied he became an alcoholic to cope.]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: In his younger days, Mike was a rodeo star, until a severe back injury ended his career and forced him into early retirement. [[spoiler: To make things worse, his wife and children died in a car crash sometime after. Both incidents weigh heavily on Mike, even years later.]]
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* NiceHat: Mike wears a grey Stetson.
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* AgeLift: Mike is 38 in the novel; in the film, he's played by a 90-year-old Clint Eastwood. Eastwood actually seems to have been planning this since he was first offered the film in 1988, turning it down at the time as he was "too young" at 58.
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* AgeLift: Mike is 38 in the novel; in the film, he's played by a 90-year-old Clint Eastwood. Eastwood actually seems to have been planning this since he was first offered the film in 1988, turning it down at the time as he somehow felt he was "too young" at 58.''at 58''.
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* PeriodPiece: The film takes place in Mexico in 1980, and boy does it show.
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Mike Milo (Eastwood) is an old one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder who, in 1979, takes a job from an ex-boss (Music/DwightYoakam) to bring the man's young son, Rafael "Rafo" (Eduardo Minett) home from Mexico. Forced to take the backroads on their way to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman finds unexpected connections and his own sense of redemption.
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Mike Milo (Eastwood) is an old one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder who, in 1979, 1980, takes a job from an ex-boss (Music/DwightYoakam) to bring the man's young son, Rafael "Rafo" (Eduardo Minett) home from Mexico. Forced to take the backroads on their way to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman finds unexpected connections and his own sense of redemption.
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* TheEighties: Although the film has a very brief prologue set in 1979, the rest of the film takes place in 1980 after a time skip that jumps ahead by one year.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The thugs that steal Mike's car are later arrested for car theft.
