My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys is a 1991 Western drama film starring Scott Glenn and Kate Capshaw and directed by Stuart Rosenberg.

Injured rodeo champion H.D Dalton (Scott Glenn, The Right Stuff) returns home to an abandoned family farm. Learning that his old girlfriend Julie (Kate Capshaw, Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom) has become a widowed mother and that his sister Cheryl (Oscar® nominee Tess Harper, Crimes of the Heart) has put their father Jesse (Oscar® winner Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show) into a nursing home, H.D is determined to turn things around and return to the saddle to ride one last rodeo and save the farm. Also featuring Garry Busey (Lethal Weapon), Balthazar Getty (Young Guns), Mickey Rooney (The Black Stallion) and from the director of all-time classic Cool Hand Luke, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys is an inspiring ride into the heart of the modern west.