No Country for Old Men
2007 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Set along a bloody frontier in our own time, this film is based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and over two million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim’s burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes that Moss and his young wife are in desperate need of protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches along and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? A harrowing story of a war society wages on itself, an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies.
Direction Joel Coen · Ethan Coen
Cast Josh Brolin · Tommy Lee Jones · Javier Bardem · Kelly MacDonald · Woody Harrelson · Stephen Root · Garret Dillahunt · Tess Harper · Barry Corbin · Rodger Boyce · Beth Grant · Caleb Landry Jones
Soundtrack Carter Burwell
Screenplay Ethan Coen · Joel Coen · Cormac McCarthy
Cinematography Roger Deakins
Original title No Country for Old Men
7.2
109K votes (FilmAffinity)
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