'Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business.
'Phil is a vicious sadist, with a seething contempt for weakness to match his thirst for dominance; George has a gentle, loving soul. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years. When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the ranch, Phil begins a relentless campaign to destroy his brother's new wife. But he reckons without an unlikely protector.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (2001 Back Bay Books).
The Power of the Dog
( dir. Jane Campion
)
United Kingdom (UK)
:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
See Saw Films
,
2021
16508049
2021
single work
film/TV
The relationship between two brothers working a large ranch in Montana is thrown into conflict when one secretly marries a local widow.
The Power of the Dog is included in AustLit because of an Australian-written adaptation.
