Appaloosa (film) Appaloosa (film) Appaloosa is a 2008 American Western film based on the 2005 novel "Appaloosa" by crime writer Robert B. Parker. Directed by Ed Harris and co-written by Harris and Robert Knott, "Appaloosa" stars Harris alongside Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger and Jeremy Irons. The film premiered at 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in selected cities on September 19, 2008, then expanded into wide-release on October 3, 2008. The film shares some narrative similarities with the 1959 Western "Warlock", directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn and Richard Widmark. There is also a 1966 Western
Neil Patrick Harris School in Albuquerque, graduating with high honors in 1991, which he attributes to being privately tutored half the school year while on set. Harris began his career as a child actor and was discovered by playwright Mark Medoff at a drama camp in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Medoff later cast him in the 1988 drama film "Clara's Heart", starring Whoopi Goldberg and based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Olshan. "Clara's Heart" earned Harris a Golden Globe nomination. The same year, he starred in "Purple People Eater", a children's fantasy. Harris' first film role as an adult