From NetFlix:

Two sheepherders — Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar (Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) — meet and fall in love while working together near Wyoming’s Brokeback Mountain in 1963. Over the next 20 years, their lives take different courses: Jack becomes a rodeo cowboy while Ennis remains a ranch hand. Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid and Michelle Williams co-star. Ang Lee directs screenwriter Larry McMurtry’s adaptation of a short story by E. Annie Proulx.

Whether you have or have not yet seen this film (recommended in “1001 Films to See Before You Die”), I urge you to read the short story by Annie Proulx of the same title. It was a “Best American Short Story” for its year of publication. When I started reading the short story in the “Best” book , I did not know what it was about. By the time I was finished I was stunned. I had never read anything like it. I prefer the short story to the film which really adds nothing. But who would have suspected that 4 years after the film one of its stars, Heath Ledger, would be dead by apparent suicide.