This mythical tale of retribution and redemption unfolds in Fort Smith, Arkansas in the 1870s, where we find the film's young narrator, Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), eager to hire the meanest bounty hunter around to apprehend Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), the killer who has just murdered
her father in cold blood.
This mythical tale of retribution and redemption unfolds in Fort Smith, Arkansas in the 1870s, where we find the film's young narrator, Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), eager to hire the meanest bounty hunter around to apprehend the man (Josh Brolin) who murdered
her father in cold blood.
Not exact matches
It's also very obvious that Carpenter was not the biggest fan of the LAPD when you consider that the whole incident is sparked by a combination of the fact that six gang members are callously gunned down
in cold blood by faceless police officers, and the fact that the grief stricken
father was only
in that certain place at that time because he had little or no trust
in the police.
Here is the story of a man whose first pivotal memory is as a young servant picking cotton at a farm
in the South, helplessly watching his
father being murdered
in cold blood for daring to call out the owner for raping and beating his mother, and whose final scenes
in the movie see him visiting the White House after voting for the first African American President of the United States.
Starring with Hunnam (FX's «Sons of Anarchy») and Oscar nominee Law («
Cold Mountain,» «The Talented Mr. Ripley») are Astrid Bergès - Frisbey («Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides») as Mage; Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou («
Blood Diamond,» «
In America») as Bedivere; Aidan Gillen (HBO's «Game of Thrones») as Goose - Fat Bill; and Eric Bana («Star Trek») as Arthur's
father, King Uther Pendragon.
Set
in the Old West of the 1870s, Hailee Steinfeld (Summer Camp) plays 14 - year - old Mattie Ross, out to avenge the
cold -
blooded killing of her
father by a drifter named Tom Chaney (Brolin, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger), who has since skipped their Arkansas town to head to Indian territory (presently known as Oklahoma), where the law has no say.
It gives fans a new look at a much younger Julie as she travels with her parents to find a safe haven, back
in the days when her
father was only just becoming the
cold -
blooded zombie killer he is later
in her life.