All the Pretty Horses Pics

In 1949, young cowboy John Grady Cole and his best friend Lacey Rawlins leave their family ranches in San Angelo, Texas and cross the border on horseback south to Mexico to seek work. They encounter on the trail a peculiar 13-year-old boy named Jimmy Blevins, whom they befriend, and later meet a young aristocrat's daughter, Alejandra Villarreal, with whom Cole falls in love.

Cole and Rawlins become hired hands for Alejandra's father, who likes their work, but Cole's romantic interest in his daughter is unwelcome by her wealthy aunt. After Alejandra is taken away by her father, Cole and Rawlins are arrested by Mexican police and taken to jail, where they encounter Blevins.

Blevins has been accused of stealing a horse and murder, and is killed by a corrupt police officer. Cole and Rawlins are sent to a Mexican prison for abetting Blevins' crime, where they must defend themselves against dangerous inmates and Cole is nearly killed. Cole is freed by the aunt of Alejandra on the condition that she never sees hims again. Rawlins is also freed. While Rawlins returns to his parents' ranch in Texas, Cole attempts to reunite with Alejandra over her family's objections. Her mother is confident that Alenjandra will keep her word and not get back together with Cole - so much so that she even gives him her daughter's phone number. Cole meets with Alejandra and urges her to leave her family and come to Texas with him. She however decides she must keep her word and though she loves him she will not go with him. Cole then sets out to get revenge on the captain who took the Blevins boy's life, and to get back his and Lacey's and Blevin's horses. After a couple of harrowing experiences, he is able to do this and returns to Texas.

Riding through a small town in Texas and towing two horses behind the one he is riding, he stops to inquire what day it is (it is Thanksgiving Day) and to ask if a couple of men would be interested in buying a rifle as he needs the money. One of the men is a sheriff's deputy and arrests him because all three horses have different brands and Cole is suspect as a horse thief.

In court Cole tells the judge his story from the beginning. The judge believes him and orders him freed and the horses returned to him. Later that evening Cole shows up at the judge's home and is troubled. The judge had said good things about him in court but he feels guilty that Blevins was killed - and while there was nothing he could have done to prevent the killing, he never even spoke up at the time and is upset with himself for that. The judge tells him he is being too hard on himself and it could not have been helped; he must go on and live his life.

Cole rides up to Lacey Rawlins on his family's ranch and asks him if he wants his horse back.

All the Pretty Horses is a 2000 American romance western film, directed by Billy Bob Thornton and based on the novel of the same title by author Cormac McCarthy. It stars Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz. The film received mostly negative reviews and grossed only $18 million worldwide.