Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 11/09/07 (Limited) 11/16/06 (St. Louis) Home Video 03/11/08 MPAA Rating Rated R for strong graphic violence and some language Running Time 1 hour 56 minutes Genre Suspense Director Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Writer Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Cast Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald Studio Miramax Films |
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007)
SYNOPSIS
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is a mesmerizing new
thriller from Academy Award® winning filmmakers
Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the acclaimed novel
by Pulitzer Prize winning American master Cormac
McCarthy. The time is our own, when rustlers have
given way to drug-runners and small towns have
become free-fire zones. Featuring a cast that
includes Academy Award®-winner Tommy Lee
Jones (“The Fugitive,” “Men in Black”), Josh Brolin
(“Grindhouse”), Academy Award®-nominee Javier
Bardem (“The Sea Inside”), Academy Award®-
nominee Woody Harrelson (“The People Vs. Larry
Flynt”) and Kelly Macdonald (“Trainspotting”), NO
COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is written for the screen and
directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, produced by
Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen and executive
produced by Robert Graf and Mark Roybal.
The story begins when Llewelyn Moss (BROLIN) 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–in the person of aging,
disillusioned Sheriff Bell (JONES) – can contain. As
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is a mesmerizing new
thriller from Academy Award® winning filmmakers
Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the acclaimed novel
by Pulitzer Prize winning American master Cormac
McCarthy. The time is our own, when rustlers have
given way to drug-runners and small towns have
become free-fire zones. Featuring a cast that
includes Academy Award®-winner Tommy Lee
Jones (“The Fugitive,” “Men in Black”), Josh Brolin
(“Grindhouse”), Academy Award®-nominee Javier
Bardem (“The Sea Inside”), Academy Award®-
nominee Woody Harrelson (“The People Vs. Larry
Flynt”) and Kelly Macdonald (“Trainspotting”), NO
COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is written for the screen and
directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, produced by
Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen and executive
produced by Robert Graf and Mark Roybal.
The story begins when Llewelyn Moss (BROLIN) 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–in the person of aging,
disillusioned Sheriff Bell (JONES) – can contain. As
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Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives
(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 headline.
--© Miramax Films
(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 headline.
--© Miramax Films