Keep the Change is a 1992 American Western television film directed by Andy Tennant and written by John Miglis, based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Thomas McGuane.
It stars William Petersen, Lolita Davidovich, Rachel Ticotin, Buck Henry, Fred Dalton Thompson, Jeff Kober, Lois Smith, and Jack Palance.
However, he leaves Astrid behind and returns to his home in Montana in search of life's meaning, and to resolve a mid-life identity crisis by raising cattle.
But once he arrives back, he discovers his old rival, Overstreet, a tough, rugged rancher who hasn't changed, will stop at nothing to get Joe's family's land into his hands.
Filming the cattle scenes took place at Ted Turner's Flying D. Ranch near Gallatin Gateway, Montana.