| Director: | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer: | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Starring: | Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released: | January 24, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Runtime: | 122 minutes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Story: |
"No Country for Old Men" is a mesmerizing new thriller from Academy Award winning
filmmakers Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, based on the acclaimed novel by Pulitzer
Prize winning American master Cormac McCarthy. The time is our own, when rustlers
have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.
The story begins when Llewelyn Moss (Brolin) finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law - in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell (Jones) - can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers - in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives (Bardem) - the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headlines. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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