Film

True Grit 2010

Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

  • Drama, Adventure, Western
  • 110 min
  • PG-13

Punishment comes one way or another.

Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.

DramaAdventureWesternbounty hunterbased on novel or bookfather murderloss of loved onetexas rangerarkansasalcoholismremakebetrayaleye patchsomber

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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.

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  • earnestironic
  • gravecomic
  • resolvedopen-ended
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