Goin' South

Goin' South

In 1868 Longhorn Texas, a convicted outlaw had two choices: get hung, or get married.

1978109 min5.8 / 10

A scrappy, irreverent Western comedy built on the collision between a charming outlaw and the woman forced to marry him to save his life, balancing dark humor with romantic tension.

Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.

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