Ride with the Devil

“In a No-man's Land between North and South, You didn't fight for the Blue or the Grey... You fought for your friends and family.”

Jake Roedel (Tobey Maguire) is a Missouri farm boy who joins the Bushwhackers, the pro-Confederate guerrillas fighting Union-backed Jayhawkers, alongside his friend Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich). They ride with George Clyde (Simon Baker) and Daniel Holt (Jeffrey Wright), and the war takes a long time to mean anything to them. Ang Lee directs it as a Western, with a slow eye for the quiet stretches between the killing.