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| TRUE GRIT |
Year: 2010
USA: Paramount Pictures
UK: Paramount Pictures UK
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper,
Hailee Steinfeld, Bruce Green, Mike Watson, Paul Rae, Ed Corbin,
Leon Russom, Dakin Matthews, Domhnall Gleeson, Elizabeth Marvel,
Candyce Hinkle, Roy Lee Jones
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Country: USA
USA & UK: 110 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for Some intense sequences of western
violence including disturbing images
UK Certificate: 15 contains scenes of violence
USA Release Date: 22 December 2010
UK Release Date: 11 February 2011
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Reviews: Phase9
movie review
Videos: Trailer
Synopsis
TRUE GRIT is a mythic Western adventure story of vengeance and
valour from Academy Award® winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen,
whose stirring adaptation hones in on the plain-spoken humour, bold
storytelling and rough beauty of Charles Portis’ classic American
novel.
The time is the 1870s, the setting frontier America just after the
Civil War, and the taleteller is Mattie Ross, who at 14 years-old
journeys to Fort Smith, Arkansas determined to extract justice for
the death of her father, shot in cold blood. Highlighted by a cast
that includes Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges (CRAZY HEART),
Academy Award® nominee Matt Damon (INVICTUS), Academy Award®
nominee Josh Brolin (MILK), Barry Pepper (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN) and
newcomer Hailee Steinfeld as one of literature’s most stout
hearted young heroines, TRUE GRIT is written for the screen and
directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and produced by Scott Rudin, Ethan
Coen and Joel Coen. The
executive producers are Steven Spielberg, Robert Graf, David
Ellison, Paul Schwake and Megan Ellison.
Mattie Ross (14 year-old Hailee Steinfeld) arrives in Fort Smith as
her family’s sole representative, in search of the coward Tom
Chaney (Josh Brolin), who is said to have killed her father for two
gold pieces before setting out into Indian Territory as a fugitive.
Beholden to follow Chaney and see him hanged, Mattie enlists the
help of a man rumored to be the most ruthless US Marshal in town –
the trigger-happy, drunken Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges). Mattie
persuades Cogburn, despite his many objections, to agree to hunt
down Chaney.
Chaney however, is already the target of the talkative Texas Ranger
LaBoeuf (Matt Damon), who is also on a mission to catch the killer
and bring him back to Texas for an ample reward, which brings the
trio to collide on the trail. Each wilful and stubborn, each driven
by their own rough moral codes, this unlikely posse rides towards an
unpredictable reckoning, as they find themselves enveloped in the
stuff of legend: mischief and brutality, courage and disillusion,
doggedness and unalloyed love.
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