Directed by:
John SaylesScreenplay:
John SaylesCinematography:
Stuart DryburghComposer:
Mason DaringCast:
Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Oni Faida Lampley, Kris Kristofferson, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Morton, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Ron Canada, Tony Plana (more)VOD (1)
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A keen observer of America’s social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neowestern mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles’s masterful film—novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson—quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Chris Cooper
USA
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Elizabeth Peña
USA
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Kris Kristofferson
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Matthew McConaughey
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Joe Morton
USA
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LaTanya Richardson Jackson
USA
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Ron Canada
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Tony Plana
Cuba
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Gabriel Casseus
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Chandra Wilson
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Tony Amendola
USA
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Gordon Tootoosis
Canada
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Frances McDormand
USA
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Fargo (1996)
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Vanessa Martinez
USA
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Jesse Borrego
USA
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Clifton James
USA
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The Untouchables (1987)
The Chase (1966)
Miriam Colon
Puerto Rico
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Joe Stevens
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