Hell or High Water (2016)

Directed by

David Mackenzie

Genre

drama film, heist film, crime film, contemporary Western film, police procedural film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

R

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 4,902 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two brothers rob banks across West Texas to pay off the mortgage on their family ranch. A pair of aging Texas Rangers try to track them down.

tensegrittyslow-burnbleakgroundedmelancholicvisceralatmospheric

What happens

Hell or High Water is a 2016 American neo-Western crime drama film directed by David Mackenzie and written by Taylor Sheridan. It follows two brothers (Chris Pine and Ben Foster) who carry out a series of bank robberies to save their family ranch, while being pursued by two Texas Rangers (Jeff Bridges and Gil Birmingham). It was the final film produced by OddLot Entertainment before its dissolution in 2015. Hell or High Water premiered at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 12, 2016. It received critical acclaim, particularly for Pine, Foster, and Bridges' performances, Sheridan's screenplay, and the editing. It grossed $37.9 million on a $12 million budget. The American Film Institute selected it as one of its 10 movies of the year, and it was nominated for numerous awards, including four Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Bridges), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing. The film is the second installment of writer Taylor Sheridan's American Frontier Trilogy, along with Sicario and Wind River. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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