True Grit (2010) (PG-13)
synopsis
Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross's father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney, and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.
details
Drama, Western
1 hr. 50 min.
Opened December 22nd, 2010
MovieGoer Review
From the moment Hailee Steinfeld enters the frame in Joel and Ethan Coen's magnificent western True Grit, an adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel (or re-adaptation — John Wayne's 1969 version got to it first), the film belongs to her.... MORE
synopsis
Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross's father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney, and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.
details
Drama, Western
1 hr. 50 min.
Opened December 22nd, 2010
MovieGoer Review
From the moment Hailee Steinfeld enters the frame in Joel and Ethan Coen's magnificent western True Grit, an adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel (or re-adaptation — John Wayne's 1969 version got to it first), the film belongs to her.... MORE