Prairie Fever (2008)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I nearly didn't watch this movie as I had originally thought that it was going to be 'just another Western' - However it quickly became apparent that this was far from the case, and I am glad to say that I did stay to watch it.I won't go into the story line - this can be found in the synopsises provided by other reviewers, here on these pages, except to say that, historically, the core characters portrayed the situations of far too many women of those times, and since, both in the States and elsewhere in the world.The central characters, played by Dominique Swain (Abigail), Jillian Armenante (Lettie), Felicia Day (Blue), Jamie Anne Allmande (Olivia Thibodeaux), and Kevin Sorbo (Sheriff Preston Biggs), are well portrayed and 3-dimensional, with excellent negative foils being provided, particularly by Lance Henriksen (Monte James, gambler and ex-partner of Olivia), and Don Swayze (gun fighter James).In all, in my opinion, a great storyline, well told, and which evolved with sensitivity as the main characters backgrounds were revealed and come to terms with as the plot moved towards its conclusion.As already expressed by another reviewer: I thank the entire production team, it was a great movie, and I loved it!

guys, i put 10 out of ten and can tell why...first: I don't't like dramas, nothing will make me watch them, even good criticism. but just of curiosity wanted to watch a movie with Kevin Sorbo.this movie looks a lot like Australian-made series. it is somewhat naive but it has gentleness and truth. when you watch it it reminds old black-and-white movies.yes, it could be better - but on the other hand - i'm tired of s-o-o much blood, "realistic" camera, computer soundtracks, sex, cursing, etc. when you watch this - it's like reading books of Jack London, Mark Twain.if you want some shock ('cause you might be some couch potato bored of everything), want some bloody shooting, yelling and another macho cowboys - it's not for you. but if you like old western stories like Tom Sawyer - this IS for you! yes, it could be better - villains could be "badder", drinking former-sheriff could act more like a drunk, but, gosh, this was like a movie of my childhood...give it a try!

I just this minute finished seeing this movie, unfortunately in Spanish which may have caused the stars to shine rather less brightly, but I doubt if I would have given it more than 5 had I seen it in the original American. I am not at all surprised that there is a great divergence of opinions about it. I do like westerns which are not just shooting matches but give us a picture of how the life of ordinary people was, but I do not think this does the job very well. When one thinks of "Westward the Women" with Robert Taylor and Corinne Calvet, this opuscule with only a handful of mail-order brides going in the opposite direction shrinks into insignificance. The pace is sometimes jumpy and generally too slow. The women, not because of attractiveness or lack of it, are of very limited interest. Though many a movie has brought a tear to these (ancient, male) eyes, I felt really no empathy with any of them, even the gun-toting uncharismatic heroine. The soundtrack score is tastefully written but too pretentious and grandiose in the style of "Dr Quinn Medicine Woman", in which the ambling along a dusty trail of a mule team pulling a small covered wagon and nothing happening is treated like "The Entry of the Queen of Sheba". There were some other flaws: At the very beginning, it was not made clear, at least to me, that it was the sheriff's wife whom he inadvertently killed, and, in fact, one does not actually see that she has been killed. It is true, however, that the version I saw was only 77 minutes long, so it is conceivable that there had been some (additional) clumsy editing. The female rejects that we had been told had been driven mad at least partly by life in the wagon train that brought them to their husbands-to-be recovered their wits remarkably quickly on a similar but more cramped return journey: Sigmund Freud, eat your heart out! The amazonian, somewhat overweight lady said to be of great strength we were not allowed to see demonstrating it, though asked by ex-Sheriff Briggs to help raise up the damaged wagon (as Jean Valjean did and was seen to do in "Les Misérables"), and apparently did so. The two idiots who had shared the sexual favours of the religiositous, bible-reading spouse now officially on the way to the nut-house,shared unbeknownst to the husband and against the will of his new wife, pursued the wagon jointly and with great fervour, presumably to reclaim said spouse/sister-in-law, though it must have been quite obvious to the adulterous brother that his sins would immediately be revealed. Which indeed came to pass leading to the smiting and slaying of both the aforementioned idiots. There was generally too much pointing of guns at each other without firing, and worse, permitting the opponent to draw his sidearm whilst already covered by a pistol. Oh yes, and the igniting of the bottles of whiskey and the throwing of them in the path of two pursuing baddies at the hands of the women ordered by Briggs to do so. The baddies seemed to hold back to give the ladies time to prepare and execute this delicate task, and when the great conflagration occurred as intended did not skirt round the flames on their swifter mounts, but politely allowed themselves to be halted by them, presumably muttering under their breath some cowboy equivalent of "A thousand thunders! Foiled again!" These villains also failed to sneak up that night on the wounded hero (couldn't the girls have found a smaller knife to take out the bullet?), which was also jolly sporting of them. Kevin Sorbo I only know as a scantily clad mythological hero from episodes of "Xena", which did not make great demands on his talents, and this rôle too failed to show whether he is capable of better things. Lance Henriksen, on the other hand, has greatly impressed me in earlier movies as a black-hearted villain in the traditions of Sweeny Todd and Maria of the Red Barn - a man you love to hate. An actor with much less talent could easily have given what was expected of him here. Oh dear, I hadn't realised I disliked this film that much!

I thought Kevin Sorbo was the only highlight. The 4 women...couldn't tell them from the 2 mules. And I think it was filmed on the same piece set. They simply shot from every conceivable angle to make it look like they were traveling. And now this stupid website says I have to make ten lines of comments? Waste more words on this piece of celluloid trash? Well, the only good looking woman gets shot and killed - thankfully, as her character was the most annoying. The female lead who saves Sorbo from his character flaws, zero sex appeal. I think everyone mailed in their performances. Yikes, and now it wants more comments from me. Lance Heinriksen is in this flick too. Once upon a time he had a career. Now, well, he's in tripe like this.