My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

PG 1991 · 106 min · ★ 6.3 · Western

H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg · Written by Joel Don Humphreys

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