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True Grit
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True Grit is a 2010 American Western drama and adventure film directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. The screenwriters include Charles Portis, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen, while the cast features Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Hailee Steinfeld. Produced by Scott Rudin, Steven Spielberg, Megan Ellison, and David Ellison, the film was distributed by Netflix and iTunes. It has a runtime of 110 minutes and is rated PG-13.
The production was based on the work True Grit and filmed in New Mexico, with the narrative set in Arkansas. Roger Deakins served as the director of photography, and Carter Burwell composed the score. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Actor, and Best Director. It received a Metascore of 80 and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 95%.
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7.3Following 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.
Cast
- Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn
- Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross
- Matt Damon as LaBoeuf
- Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney
- Barry Pepper as Lucky Ned Pepper
- Dakin Matthews as Col. Stonehill
Themes
- bounty hunter
- based on novel or book
- father murder
- loss of loved one
- texas ranger
- arkansas
- alcoholism
- remake
- betrayal
- eye patch
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Ratings
IMDb
7.6/10
370,062 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Metacritic
80/100
- Year
- 2010
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Genres
- Drama, Western
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- Nominated for 10 Oscars. 38 wins & 170 nominations total
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Encyclopedic overview
True Grit is a 2010 American Western film produced, written, and directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. It is an adaptation of Charles Portis's 1968 novel. Starring Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld (in her theatrical film debut), True Grit also stars Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Barry Pepper. In the film, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross (Steinfeld) hires boozy, trigger-happy lawman Rooster Cogburn (Bridges) to go after outlaw Tom Chaney (Brolin), who murdered her father, accompanied by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Damon), who is also hunting Chaney, and who has his own gripes with Cogburn.
The Coens intended their film to be a more faithful adaptation of Portis's novel than the 1969 version starring John Wayne; in particular, they wanted to tell the story from Mattie's point of view. The casting call for the role of Mattie received some 15,000 applicants before Steinfeld was selected. Principal photography occurred mainly in the Santa Fe, New Mexico area in March–April 2010. True Grit was shot by cinematographer Roger Deakins and scored by composer Carter Burwell—both Coen regulars—while the brothers themselves edited the film, under the Roderick Jaynes pseudonym.
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