No Country for Old Men (2007)
Crime, Drama, Thriller |
No Country for Old Men is a American neo-Western crime thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel of the same name. A cat-and-mouse thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, it follows a Texas welder and Vietnam War veteran in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance that the Coen brothers had explored in the films Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987) and Fargo (1996).
No Country for Old Men premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19. The film won 76 awards on 109 nominations across multiple organizations; it won four awards at the 80th Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Director(s), Best Supporting Actor (Bardem) and Best Adapted Screenplay – three British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), including Best Director(s), and two Golden Globes. The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year, and the National Board of Review selected the film as the best of 2007.
In Texas, 1980, hitman Anton Chigurh strangles a deputy sheriff to escape custody and uses a captive bolt pistol to kill a driver and steal his car. He spares the life of a gas station owner who accepts a challenge and successfully guesses the result of Chigurh’s coin flip.
Hunting pronghorns in the desert, Llewelyn Moss comes across the aftermath of a drug deal gone bad. He finds several dead men and dogs, a wounded Mexican man begging for water, and two million dollars in a briefcase. He takes the money and returns home. That night, Moss returns to the scene with water. He is pursued by two men in a truck and escapes. At home, he sends his wife, Carla Jean, to stay with her mother, then drives to a motel in Del Rio, where he hides the case in his room’s air duct.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Writers: Joel Coen (screenplay), Ethan Coen (screenplay), Cormac McCarthy (novel)
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper
Cast:
Tommy Lee Jones | … | Ed Tom Bell |
Javier Bardem | … | Anton Chigurh |
Josh Brolin | … | Llewelyn Moss |
Woody Harrelson | … | Carson Wells |
Kelly Macdonald | … | Carla Jean Moss |
Garret Dillahunt | … | Wendell |
Tess Harper | … | Loretta Bell |
Barry Corbin | … | Ellis |
Stephen Root | … | Man who hires Wells |
Rodger Boyce | … | El Paso Sheriff |
Beth Grant | … | Carla Jean’s Mother |
Ana Reeder | … | Poolside Woman |
Kit Gwin | … | Sheriff Bell’s Secretary |
Zach Hopkins | … | Strangled Deputy |
Chip Love | … | Man in Ford |
Eduardo Antonio Garcia | … | ‘Agua’ Man |
Gene Jones | … | Gas Station Proprietor |
Myk Watford | … | ‘Managerial’ Victim |
Boots Southerland | … | ‘Managerial’ Victim |
Kathy Lamkin | … | Desert Aire Manager |
Johnnie Hector | … | Cabbie at Bus Station |
Margaret Bowman | … | Del Rio Motel Clerk |
Thomas Kopache | … | Boot Salesman |
Jason Douglas | … | Cabbie at Motel |
Doris Hargrave | … | Waitress |
Rutherford Cravens | … | Gun Store Clerk |
Matthew Posey | … | Sporting Goods Clerk |
George Adelo | … | Mexican in Bathtub |
Mathew Greer | … | Hitchhiking Driver |
Trent Moore | … | Nervous Accountant |
Marc Miles | … | Hotel Eagle Clerk |
Luce Rains | … | Pickup Driver |
Philip Bentham | … | Border Bridge Youth |
Erik V. Reeves | … | Border Bridge Youth (as Eric Reeves) |
Josh Meyer | … | Border Bridge Youth |
Chris Warner | … | Flatbed Driver |
Brandon Smith | … | INS Official |
Roland Uribe | … | Well Dressed Mexican (as H. Roland Uribe) |
Richard Jackson | … | Chicken Farmer |
Josh Blaylock | … | Boy on Bike |
Caleb Landry Jones | … | Boy on Bike (as Caleb Jones) |
Dorsey Ray | … | Odessa Cabbie |
Angel H. Alvarado Jr. | … | Norteño Band |
David A. Gomez | … | Norteño Band |
Milton Hernandez | … | Norteño Band |
John Mancha | … | Norteño Band |
Scott Flick | … | Cab Driver (uncredited) |
Albert Fry Jr. | … | El Paso Deputy (uncredited) |
Angelo Martinez | … | Bus Passenger (uncredited) |
James Rishe | … | Coffee Shop Customer (uncredited) |
Elizabeth Slagsvol | … | Nurse (uncredited) |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia
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