The Newton Boys

Name: The Newton Boys
Director: Richard Linklater
Released: 1998
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gail Cronauer

1998 · 122 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 12,799 VOTES · DIR. Richard Linklater

Overview

The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the oldest of them, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers and execute the greatest train robbery in American history five years later.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,521 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:02:21 Whoa. I'll get this ear, and you get on.

00:05:45 If it ain't fair when it's all said and done, it'll be unfair on my side of the fence.

00:12:21 WILLIS: What'd we get? GLASSCOCK: What did you get?

00:16:43 Would you look at this?

00:20:17 Pa's doing his clean-living routine. It's rubbing off on the kid.

00:24:57 I got them idiots shooting at each other! Hee-hee!

00:29:00 Arthur owns the cigar stand where I work.

00:33:10 If nobody ever robbed a bank, the insurance companies would go broke...

00:38:31 I told him it wasn't safe.

00:43:38 All that money? Me and my brothers made that money gambling.

00:50:04 Hey, what's the matter?

00:53:35 WILLIS: You do too. - No, I don't.

00:59:32 Dock, get him. Glass, Jess, you take them two.

01:04:24 Went to Sunday school with her.

01:08:24 Yeah.

01:12:01 - What do you want? - Name's Willie Rice. Friend of Murray's.

01:16:13 I'm just asking, are you sure?

01:21:50 St. Paul goes back this way, and this section's going to Minneapolis.

01:26:41 I'II, uh, I'll be back tomorrow to work on the fractures in his arms.

01:33:15 This one's pretty.

01:38:22 Well, go ahead. Take a peek.

01:42:39 Yeah.

01:47:27 And what we did was wrong.

01:54:04 All he had to do was put it in the handbag.

Cast & Characters

Matthew McConaughey Willis Newton Ethan Hawke Jess Newton Skeet Ulrich Joe Newton Vincent D'Onofrio Dock Newton Gail Cronauer Ma Newton Jena Karam Orphan Singer Casey McAuliffe Orphan Singer Regina Mae Matthews Orphan Fiddler Lew Temple Waiter Dwight Yoakam Brentwood Glasscock

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,521

Dialogue density12.5 lines / min

First line00:02:21

Final line01:54:04

Production Record

DirectorRichard Linklater

LanguageEnglish

Budget$27,000,000

Revenue$76,000,000

IMDb votes12,799