Meek's Cutoff (2010)
- Directed by
- Kelly Reichardt
- Genre
- Western film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 304 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A small group of settlers traveling on the Oregon Trail in 1845 follow a guide named Meek through the high desert. They begin to lose trust in him as their supplies dwindle and the harsh landscape closes in.
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What happens
Meek's Cutoff is a 2010 American Western historical survival film directed by Kelly Reichardt and starring Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Will Patton, Shirley Henderson, Neal Huff, Tommy Nelson, and Rod Rondeaux. The story is loosely based on a historical incident on the Oregon Trail in 1845, in which frontier guide Stephen Meek led a wagon train on an ill-fated journey through the Oregon High Desert along the route later known as the Meek Cutoff in the western United States. The film was shown in competition at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The film is formatted in the Academy ratio (1.37:1), a standard used in many classic Westerns. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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