Poster from TMDB
Rob Roy
Sign in to save1995 film by Michael Caton-Jones
OverviewAI-generated
Rob Roy is a 1995 swashbuckler, biographical, romance, and action film directed by Michael Caton-Jones, who also served as executive producer, from a screenplay by Alan Sharp. Set in Scotland in 1713 and filmed there, it stars Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, and Tim Roth, with cinematography by Karl Walter Lindenlaub and Roger Deakins and a score by Carter Burwell. It was produced by United Artists alongside Talisman Films and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and distributed by United Artists and Netflix.
The film received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. It was rated R, ran 139 minutes, had a budget of 28,000,000, and earned 31,600,000 at the box office.
Synthesized by Vinony from 45 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, TMDb, IMDb, OMDb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Film · TMDB
6.7In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
Cast
- Liam Neeson as Robert Roy MacGregor
- Jessica Lange as Mary MacGregor
- John Hurt as John Graham
- Tim Roth as Archibald Cunningham
- Eric Stoltz as Alan MacDonald
- Brian Cox as Killearn
Themes
- affectation
- biography
- 18th century
- highlands
- violent man
- scottish highlands
- joyous
- hopeful
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Ratings
IMDb
6.9/10
47,158 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
72%
Metacritic
55/100
- Year
- 1995
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Biography, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 5 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Michael Caton-Jones
- Screenplay by
- Alan Sharp
- Produced by
- Peter Broughan Richard Jackson
- Starring
- Liam Neeson Jessica Lange John Hurt Tim Roth Eric Stoltz Brian Cox
- Cinematography
- Karl Walter Lindenlaub
- Edited by
- Peter Honess
- Music by
- Carter Burwell
- Production company
- United Artists
- Distributed by
- MGM/UA Distribution Co. (United States) United International Pictures (International)
- Release dates
- April 5, 1995 ( 1995-04-05 ) (New York premiere) April 7, 1995 ( 1995-04-07 ) (United States) May 19, 1995 ( 1995-05-19 ) (United Kingdom)
- Running time
- 139 minutes
- Countries
- United States, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $28 million
- Box office
- $58.7 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Rob Roy MacGregor
- Director
- Michael Caton-Jones
- Screenwriter
- Alan Sharp
- Cast member
- David Hayman
- Composer
- Carter Burwell
- Production company
- United Artists
- Cinematographer
- Roger Deakins
- Narrative location
- Scotland
- Filming location
- Scotland
- Duration
- 139
- FilmAffinity ID
- 622895
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.mgmua.com/robroy
Show 13 more facts
- publication date
- 1995-04-14
- film editor
- Peter Honess
- title
- Rob Roy
- executive producer
- Michael Caton-Jones
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- distributed by
- Netflix
- production designer
- Assheton Gorton
- set in period
- 1713
- review score
- 55/100
- characters
- John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- capital cost
- 28000000
- box office
- 31596911
Sources (15)
via Wikidata · CC0
~13 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Rob Roy is a 1995 historical biographical drama film directed by Michael Caton-Jones. It stars Liam Neeson as Rob Roy MacGregor, an 18th-century Scottish highlander who becomes engaged in a dispute with a nobleman in the Scottish Highlands, played by John Hurt. Tim Roth won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Archibald Cunningham, one of Rob Roy's chief antagonists. Jessica Lange portrays Roy's wife, and Eric Stoltz, Brian Cox, and Jason Flemyng play supporting parts.
Plot
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rob Roy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.