Co-starring Reese Witherspoon, Michael Shannon and «The
Tree of
Life» tyke Tye Sheridan, the film follows the story of an unlikely friendship between a fugitive (McConaughey) and a 14 - year - old boy (Sheridan) who helps him escape off an island in Mississippi, evade the law and bounty hunters, and reunite him with his sweetheart
Juniper (Witherspoon).