After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.
Acting
Portman's exhausted determination—she's carrying trauma and a shotgun.
Cinematography
New Mexico landscapes so harsh they become characters.
Writing
The non-linear structure rewards patience with emotional gut-punches.
Director
Gavin O'Connor
Natalie Portman
Jane Hammond
Joel Edgerton
Dan Frost
Ewan McGregor
John Bishop
Noah Emmerich
Bill Hammond
Boyd Holbrook
Vic Owen
Rodrigo Santoro
Fitchum
Alex Manette
Buck
Todd Stashwick
O'Dowd
James Burnett
Cunny Charlie
Sam Quinn
Slow Jeremiah
Chad Brummett
Theodore Ballard
Boots Southerland
Marshall
Nash Edgerton
Fur Trader
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film famously lost its original director Lynne Ramsay on day one of shooting, with Gavin O'Connor stepping in mere hours later.
Part of a brief 2010s wave of female-led Westerns (The Homesman, Sweetwater) that challenged the genre's macho mythology.
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