Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and adventure on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.


Books with substantial mentioning of True Grit

Adam Nayman
Coen brothers
New York, NY, 2018
pp. 262-272 info

Articles on True Grit

Martin Holtz, "You Must Pay for Eveything in This World One Way or Another": The Economics of Justice in True Grit, in: Marek Paryz, John R. Leo (eds.), The post-2000 film western, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY, 2015

True Grit, in: Empire, nr. 258 (December), 2010 pp. 22-23

Dan Jolin, Once Upon A Time In The West, in: Empire, nr. 259 (January), 2011 pp. 90-97

Graham Fuller, No country for young girls, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 2 (February), 2011 pp. 16-19

Rudolf Worschech, Der Charme des Abgetakelten, in: epd Film, nr. 2, 2011 pp. 30-33

Articles with substantial mentioning of True Grit

10 movies we want to see right now..., in: Empire, nr. 256 (October), 2010 pp. 100-109

Reviews

Ben Walters, True Grit, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 2 (February), 2011 pp. 80

Nicolas Rapold, True Grit, in: Filmcomment, nr. 1 (January/February), 2011 pp. 71

Angie Errigo, True Grit, The Dude bests The Duke in a new Coens masterpiece, in: Empire, nr. 260 (February), 2011 pp. 42-44

Jeannette Mohr, True Grit, in: epd Film, nr. 2, 2011 pp. 34-35


Year: 2010
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 1403865