Brokeback Mountain Pulled from Utah Cinema

It seems as though "Brokeback Mountain," a film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as two gay cowboys, has yet another mountain to cross: offended movieplex owners. The Jordon Commons Megaplex in Salt Lake City, which is owned by Larry Miller, a prominent member of the Mormon church, pulled the film at the last minute due to the film's homosexual themes. "It's just a shame that such a beautiful and award-winning film with so much buzz about it is not being made available to a broad Utah audience because of personal bias," Mike Thompson, of the gay rights group Equality Utah, told the Salt Lake Tribune. Gayle Ruzicka, the president of the Utah Eagle Forum, a conservative group, responded, ""I just think [pulling the film] tells the young people especially that maybe there is something wrong with this show."