The Claim

California 1860 and prospector Daniel Dillon (Peter Mullan) has made a fortune in gold and is now running Kingdom Come, a small town built in the heart of the Sierra mountains. He wants to turn the town into a thriving city and to this end he asks Dalglish (Wes Bentley), an engineer plotting the course of the Pacific Railroad Expedition, to survey the surrounding area. But then Dillon's wife (Nastassja Kinski) and twenty-year-old daughter (Sarah Polley), both of whom he had traded for his goldmine years before, arrive in town asking for help. Dillon is overcome with guilt, and leaves his mistress Lucia (Milla Jovovich) in order to seek his wife's forgiveness. Lucia herself then takes up with Dalglish, who tells Dillon that the railroad will not be passing through his town, thereby causing the increasingly-unhinged prospector to reach for his rifle....

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Writer: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Director Photography: Alwin Kuchler
Music: Michael Nyman
Actor: Peter Mullan
Actor: Milla Jovovich
Actor: Wes Bentley
Actor: Nastassja Kinski
Actor: Sarah Polley
Actor: Shirley Henderson
Actor: Julian Richings
Actor: Sean McGinley
Actor: Randy Birch
Actor: Tom McCamus
Actor: Frank Zotter
Actor: Artur Ciastkowski
Cinematographer: Alwin H. Kuchler