An Irish couple posing as brother and sister Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) immigrate to America; she from an aristocratic crowd and he from a poorer family, losing their farm. They hope to start over in Oklahoma territory. She loses her money--silver she took from her mother to a swindler. So it turns out he is more apt to earn money in the new world. He becomes a boxer and does well. But they are both put out on the street when he loses a fight, mostly because is manager (Colm Meany) makes advances on his "sister."
They are cold and hungry, and eventually break into an empty house. She is shot when the owner discovers them. He takes her to her ex suitor (Thomas Gibson) who has followed them to America.
Somehow they both end up ant the day the Oklahoma territory is opening. Her parents (Robert Prosky and Barbara Babcock) are also there.
I enjoyed this movie. I have a inkling that much of the history is off however.
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