When does it open?

29 February 2008

What's it about?

Walking away with the 2008 Golden Globe for Best Screenplay, 'No Country for Old Men' is a new thriller from Academy Award-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the acclaimed novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Cormac McCarthy.

The story follows Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), who 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.

When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law — aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) — can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers — in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives (Javier Bardem) — the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headlines.

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