This movie tells the twenty-year tale of two cowboys, who meet as they prepare to head up Brokeback Mountain one year to watch sheep. Yes, they are headed up the mountain to keep an eye on the sheep. The two will stay there and one will keep the camp while the other keeps an eye on the sheep.

It’s not a glamorous job, but apparently the pay is good (they don’t actually mention it – I’m assuming that it must be, or they wouldn’t do it for months on end). Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) go up the mountain as strangers, but they come down as a whole lot more than friends, which is a tough thing in the sixties. It’s not an easy thing now. Then they go their separate ways.

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Young Chris Brander (Ryan Reynolds) has a problem. He has been best friends with Jamie Palamino (Amy Smart) for years, but it seems like that’s all they will ever be. He’s stuck in The Friend Zone.

Now they’re graduating, so he’s going to write her a special note in her yearbook. The only problem is one of those jerk jocks gets a hold of it and reads the note to everyone at the party, and he’s humiliated again. He jumps on his bike and rides off.

10 years later, he is in LA and his boss gives him an ultimatum. Sign (another) bratty superstar to a contract, or find somewhere else to work. It just so happens that he’s been dating this one, so they jet off towards Paris to see what he can do.

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