This is the film I've been itching to catch all year. Paramount Pictures' "True Grit" western, helmed and screenwritten by Ethan and Joel Coen, opens on December 22nd and stars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper and impressive newcomer Hailee Steinfeld.
The Coen brothers adapt the screenplay based on the novel of the same title by Charles Portis which spawned a film and TV series starring John Wayne (now played by Bridges).
The story follows fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross's (Hailee Steinfeld) whose father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is determined to bring him to justice.
Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.
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