![]() Jack, by contrast, is still drawn to other men, and remains unmarried until he meets and, after a drunken one-night stand, has a son with feisty cowgirl Lureen Newsome ( Anne Hathaway), whose father owns a profitable business selling farming machinery in Texas and openly looks down on Jack. ![]() Ennis marries Alma ( Michelle Williams), who soon gets pregnant and gives birth to two daughters, Alma Jr. When the summer ends, the two men separate and continue with their lives. Over the next several days, the two increasingly give in to their attraction to one another. The bitter cold leads to their sleeping spooned, Jack initiates touching, and Ennis eventually responds. Breaking their employer's rule that one man must sleep with the sheep and one at the camp, one night after an evening of boozing and shooting the bull, they end up sharing the tent to avoid freezing. While sharing a sheephand's backbreaking work load, facing the toil and troubles of the weather, shortages of food, and wild animal attacks, their working friendship eventually develops into something more. Both feel essentially alone in the world. Jack Twist ( Jake Gyllenhaal) is about the same age and dreams of becoming the greatest rodeo cowboy alive. Ennis Del Mar ( Heath Ledger) is 19, engaged to be married in the fall, and aspires to someday run his own ranch, following in the footsteps of his parents, who died in a car crash and left young Ennis and his brother and sister alone to fend for themselves. ![]() ![]() In the summer of 1963, two young men meet when they find work sheep-herding for the summer on Brokeback Mountain, a fictional, picturesque setting in Wyoming. ![]()
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