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No Country for Old Men

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• Crime/detective
• Thriller

• 2007
• Ethan Coen
• 117 mins
• 15

Summary

Oscar-winning crime thriller from the Coen brothers, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. After going on the run with $2 million from a botched desert drugs deal, hapless cowboy Llewelyn Moss is pursued across Texas by sociopathic hitman Anton Chigurh and ageing sheriff Ed Tom Bell.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Jamie Russell

There's a lot of money being chased in this masterful, multi-faceted thriller from the Coen brothers, but it's not really what's at stake. Set in Texas in 1980, it begins with Vietnam War veteran Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbling across a desert drug deal gone wrong and escaping with a suitcase containing $2 million. A game of cat and mouse ensues, as Moss is pursued by a ruthless assassin armed with a cattle stun gun (Javier Bardem), various Mexican drug dealers and an ageing police sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones), whose despairing take on the state of America provides the movie's moral heart. Adapting Cormac McCarthy's terse noir novel for the screen, the Coens deliver a complex, utterly riveting thriller that's also a philosophical meditation on the inexorable nature of fate. They also succeed in marrying the writer's apocalyptic sense of social breakdown with their own blackly comic sensibility. The result is a terrific crime movie that bears comparison with their other career high points, Blood Simple and Fargo.

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8.2/10

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Cast

rolenameEd Tom BellTommy Lee JonesAnton ChigurhJavier BardemLlewelyn MossJosh BrolinCarson WellsWoody HarrelsonCarla Jean MossKelly MacdonaldWendellGarret DillahuntLoretta BellTess HarperEllisBarry Corbin

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rolenameDirectorEthan CoenDirectorJoel Coen

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Theatrical distributor

Paramount

Released on

2008-01-18

Languages

English | Spanish

Guidance

Violence, swearing.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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