True Grit
The Coen brothers have done it again, this time taking over the Western genre with this stunning remake of the John Wayne classic. The film is faithful to the dialogue of the original, but Jeff Bridges is a far more realistic and scary Rooster Cogburn than Wayne was, and 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld claims the role of Mattie Ross as her own. Rooster and Mattie set out to find her father’s killer (played hilariously by Josh Brolin) as big-mouthed Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon, also getting laughs) tags along. Watching Steinfeld’s Mattie outsmart the adults never gets old. Shot beautifully by Roger Deakins, with a terrific score by Carter Burwell, the movie is easily one of 2010’s best, and another masterpiece from one of cinema’s most-consistent movie-making teams.
By Bob Grimm
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Credits
Directors:
- Joel Coen
- Ethan Coen
Cast:
- Jeff Bridges
- Matt Damon
- Josh Brolin
- Barry Pepper
- Hailee Steinfeld
- Dakin Matthews
- Jarlath Conroy
- Paul Rae
- Elizabeth Marvel
- Roy Lee Jones
- Ed Corbin
- Leon Russom
- Bruce Green
- Candyce Hinkle
- Peter Leung
Producers:
- Scott Rudin
- Joel Coen
- Ethan Coen
- Steven Spielberg
- Robert Graf
- David Ellison
- Paul Schwake
- Megan Ellison
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