The Hi-Lo Country is a 1998 Western film directed by Stephen Frears, starring Billy Crudup, Penélope Cruz, Woody Harrelson, Cole Hauser, Sam Elliott, Patricia Arquette, Enrique Castillo, and Katy Jurado.

While Big Boy is away, Pete returns from the war sooner and is allowed to work for corporate cattle baron Jim Ed Love, but declines.

Hanging on to the mythic ideals of the American West, Big Boy and Pete team up with an old-time rancher Hoover Young to raise cattle the cowboy way.

Other appearances include musician Rose Maddox as Big Boy's Grandmother, rodeo announcer Bob Tallman as himself, and Chris O'Connell, Leon Rausch, Connie Smith, Marty Stuart, & Don Walser as the band.

[2][3] Bob Graham of the San Francisco Chronicle said, "The traditional settings of Westerns are honored: the saloon, the dance hall, the rodeo, the cattle drive, the snowstorm.

Hi-Lo is not only the name of the high-country flatlands where the story takes place, it is also a poker game, and that Western cliche is given a good spin, too.

"[3] Stephen Holden of The New York Times said, "In its best moments the movie feels like an epic hybrid of Red River and The Last Picture Show.