Directed by:
Kelly ReichardtScreenplay:
Jonathan RaymondCinematography:
Christopher BlauveltComposer:
Jeff GraceCast:
Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Will Patton, Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson, Neal Huff, Tommy Nelson, Rod RondeauxVOD (1)
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Meek's Cutoff, from acclaimed director Kelly Reinhardt (Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy), is a stark and poetic drama set in 1845, the earliest days of the treacherous Oregon Trail. A wagon train of three families (including two-time Academy Award® nominee Michelle Williams) has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants must face the scourges of hunger, thirst and their lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as their natural born enemy. (KinoSmith)
(more)Cast
Michelle Williams
USA
Best movies:
Shutter Island (2010)
The Station Agent (2003)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Bruce Greenwood
Canada
Best movies:
First Blood (1982)
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
Star Trek (2009)
Will Patton
USA
Best movies:
Into the West (2005) (series)
In the Soup (1992)
Remember the Titans (2000)
Zoe Kazan
USA
Best movies:
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Fracture (2007)
The F Word (2013)
Paul Dano
USA
Best movies:
Prisoners (2013)
Guerre et paix (2016) (series)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Shirley Henderson
UK
Best movies:
Trainspotting (1996)
The Way We Live Now (2001) (series)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Neal Huff
USA
Best movies:
Spotlight (2015)
John Adams (2008) (series)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Tommy Nelson
USA
Best movies:
Mildred Pierce (2011) (series)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Meek's Cutoff (2010)
Rod Rondeaux
Best movies:
Into the West (2005) (series)
Hostiles (2017)
Comanche Moon (2008) (series)