No Country for Old Men

2007 Drama

When a Vietnam veteran discovers two million dollars while wandering through the aftermath of a Texas drug deal gone horribly awry, his decision to abscond with the cash sets off a violent chain reaction in a stripped-down crime drama from Joel and Ethan Coen. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) has just stumbled into the find of a lifetime. Upon discovering a bullet-strewn pickup truck surrounded by the corpses of dead bodyguards, Moss uncovers two million dollars in cash and a substantial load of heroin stashed in the back of the vehicle. Later, as an enigmatic killer who determines the fate of his victims with the flip of a coin sets out in pursuit of Moss, the disillusioned Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) struggles to contain the rapidly escalating violence that seems to be consuming his once-peaceful Lone Star State town. Woody Harrelson, Javier Bardem, and Kelly MacDonald co-star in a distinctly American crime story that explores timeless biblical themes in a contemporary Southwestern setting. more..

Director: Joel Coen

Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald

 31 Reviews  61 Awards

Reviews

  • An intense, nihilistic thriller as well as a model of implacable storytelling, this is a film you can't stop watching even though you very much wish you could. That's because No Country escorts you through a world so pitilessly bleak, "you put your soul at hazard," as one character says, to be part of it.

    Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times

    26 April 2013

  • Many of the scenes in No Country for Old Men are so flawlessly constructed that you want them to simply continue, and yet they create an emotional suction drawing you to the next scene. Another movie that made me feel that way was "Fargo." To make one such film is a miracle. Here is another.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    26 April 2013

  • 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.

    Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

    26 April 2013

  • Feels positively Greek in its magnitude, a lament about fate, age, time and life.

    Mick LaSalle - The San Francisco Chronicle

    26 April 2013

  • If watching movie violence is cathartic, then this film amounts to heavy therapy. It's much more than that, however. This is the best film the Coen brothers have done since their glory days of "Fargo" and "The Big Lebowski," maybe the best they've done, period.

    Joe Morgenstern - The Wall Street Journal

    26 April 2013

Awards

  • Movie of the Year

    AFI Awards (2008)

  • Best Achievement in Directing

    Academy Awards (2008)

  • Best Supporting Actor

    Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (2008)

  • Best Foreign Feature Film (Årets utenlandske kinofilm)

    Amanda Awards, Norway (2008)

     

  • Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic

    American Cinema Editors (2008)

     

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