No Country for Old Men (2007)

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Miramax Films' 'No Country for Old Men' - Miramax Films

Studio: Paramount Vantage

Studio: Miramax Films

Rating: R

Release Date: Nov 16, 2007

Running Time: 122 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring:

Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Beth Grant, Garret Dillahunt, Woody Harrelson, Stephen Root, Kelly MacDonald, Jason Douglas, Kit Gwin

director:

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Javier Bardem at Academy Awards Luncheon

Javier Bardem at Screen Actors Guild Awards for No Country for Old Men

Llewelyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back trunk. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law--namely aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell--can contain. Moss tries to evade his pursuers, in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives.

There are still a lot of good movies slated for November and December, but it's hard to imagine anything topping the Coen brothers' chiller-thriller No Country for Old Men; let's just say nothing has in the first 10 months of 2007.

Story

Early on in No Country for Old Men, there is a wide-angle shot of an open field in border-town Texas. Gorgeous but menacing, it is the very snapshot of "calm before the storm." One of the men who will momentarily be in the storm's epicenter, Llewelyn Moss (Josh…

PETER TRAVERS - November 1, 2007

Misguided souls will tell you that No Country for Old Men is out for blood, focused on vengeance and unconcerned with the larger world outside a standard-issue suspense plot. Those people, of course, are deaf, dumb and blind to anything that isn't spelled out between commercials on dying TV networks. Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel is an indisputably great movie, at this point the year's very best. Set in 1980 in West Texas, where the chase is on for stolen drug…