A Million Ways to Die in the West is a 2014 American western comedy filmdirected, produced by and starring Seth MacFarlane, who wrote the screenplay along with Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. The film features anensemble cast, including Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Neil Patrick Harris, Giovanni Ribisi, Sarah Silverman and Liam Neeson. It was produced by Media Rights Capital and distributed by Universal Pictures the film was released on may 30, 2014
In 1882, in the town of Old Stump, Arizona, a cowardly sheep farmer named Albert Stark (Seth MacFarlane) is dumped by his beloved girlfriend Louise (Amanda Seyfried) as a result of his withdrawal from a gunfight. He prepares to leave for San Francisco, believing that the frontier holds nothing for him. Meanwhile, infamous outlaw Clinch Leatherwood (Liam Neeson) robs and kills an old prospector (Matt Clark) for a gold nugget. He orders his right-hand man Lewis (Evan Jones) to escort his wife Anna (Charlize Theron) to Old Stump to lie low while he continues his banditry. Lewis and Anna arrive in Old Stump under the guise of two siblings intending to build a farm, but Lewis is arrested after shooting the Pastor's (John Aylward) son (Dylan Kenin) in asaloon. During the ensuing brawl, Albert saves Anna from being crushed by two of the brawlers, and the two become friends. They attend a County Fairwhere Louise's new boyfriend, the foppish Foy (Neil Patrick Harris), challenges Albert to a shooting contest. Albert is defeated, but Anna steps up and defeats Foy. Foy insults Albert, who angrily challenges Foy to a duel in a week's time.
Anna teaches Albert how to shoot. During a barn dance the night before the duel, Anna slips Foy a Mickey. After leaving the dance, Albert and Anna kiss before heading home. Upon breaking out of jail and murdering the sheriff, Lewis sees the kiss and reports it to Clinch. On the day of the duel, Foy arrives late and goes into convulsions from thelaxative he had unknowingly imbibed. Albert, who has decided that Louise is not worth the trouble, once again forfeits the duel. He retires to the saloon, but Clinch arrives and demands to know who kissed his wife. When no one comes forward, Clinch shoots a nearby cowboy (Ryan Reynolds). He reveals that Anna is his wife and threatens to continue killing unless his wife's lover duels him at noon the next day. Clinch later compels Anna to reveal Albert's name and then prepares to have sex with her, but she knocks him unconscious and escapes.
Anna returns to Albert's farm where he confronts her. Clinch pursues Anna to the farm; but Albert helps her escape, then escapes himself. While fleeing, he is captured by a tribe of Indians, who threaten to burn him alive. The Indians spare him when he reveals that he can speak their language. They give him a bowl of peyote, which sends him flashing back to his birth and through traumatic events of his childhood before making him realize that he loves Anna. Meanwhile, Clinch eventually recaptures Anna in town, in front of Edward's (Giovanni Ribisi) house. Albert returns to Old Stump and confronts Clinch. He wounds Clinch with a bullet poisoned with rattlesnake venom before his own gun is shot out of his hand, but he manages to stall until Clinch fatally succumbs to the poison. Louise attempts to win back Albert, but he rejects her and instead enters a relationship with Anna. Albert also receives a bounty for killing Clinch and uses the money to buy more sheep.
Later at the Fair, the proprietor of a racially charged shooting game "Runaway Slave" asks who would like to take a shot.Django (Jamie Foxx) steps up and shoots the man while commenting that "people die at the fair".
Cast
Seth MacFarlane as Albert Stark, a sheep farmer.
Mike Salazar as 6-year-old Albert
Charlize Theron as Anna Barnes-Leatherwood, Clinch Leatherwood's wife who befriends Albert.
Amanda Seyfried as Louise,Albert's ex-girlfriend.
Liam Neeson as Clinch Leatherwood,an infamous outlaw and Anna's husband.
Giovanni Ribisi as Edward, Albert's best friend and Ruth's boyfriend
Neil Patrick Harris as Foy, an Old Stump inhabitant and Louise's current boyfriend.
Sarah Silverman as Ruth, Edward's girlfriend and a prostitute.
Christopher Hagen as George Stark, Albert's cranky father.
Wes Studi as Cochise
Rex Linn as Sheriff/Narrator
Alex Borstein as Millie
Ralph Garman as Dan
John Aylward as Pastor Wilson
Amick Byram as Marcus Thornton
Evan Jones as Lewis, an outlaw and Clinch Leatherwood's right-hand man.
Dylan Kenin as Pastor's Son, the son of a pastor who is killed by Lewis in the bar.
Cameos
Tait Fletcher as Cowboy #1
Gilbert Gottfried as Abraham Lincoln,he was seen during Albert's drug trip.
Mike Henry as Smiling man in photograph
Dennis Haskins as Snake oil salesman
John Michael Higgins as Dandy #1
Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown
Bill Maher as Comic
Ewan McGregor as Cowboy at fair, a cowboy who laughed at Foy's joke.
Alec Sulkin as Guy at fair
Rupert Boneham as Guy in bar fight
Kaley Cuoco (uncredited, unrated version only ) as Woman in the Store, a girl that Albert tries to pick up in a store.
Jamie Foxx (uncredited) as Django Freeman, he appears where he shoots the owner of the "Runaway Slave" game. The scene featuring him was added after audiences in test screenings reacted poorly to the shooting gallery at the fair which features cartoon images of black slaves as targets.
Ryan Reynolds (uncredited) as Cowboy killed in bar
Patrick Stewart (uncredited voice) as Sheep, a sheep with long legs that was seen in Albert's drug trip.
Ralph Garman as Dan.
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