PG-13 | 1h 50min | Western, Drama | 2010
The first thing you see when you’re watching “True Grit” (2010) is not a picture on the screen, but a proverb that’s more a lamentation than a lesson: “The wicked flee when none pursueth” (Proverbs 28:1).
Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), a 14-year-old girl from Arkansas, watches cowardly ranch hand Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) flee after killing her father. She promptly hires a washed-out deputy U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to hunt down Chaney and see him hanged in Arkansas. Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) joins the search, but wants Chaney tried in Texas for the killing of a state senator, rather than hanged outright….