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| Directed by | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
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| Based on | True Grit by Charles Portis |
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| Cinematography | Roger Deakins |
| Edited by | Roderick Jaynes[a] |
| Music by | Carter Burwell |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $35–38 million[1][3][4] |
| Box office | $252.3 million [4] |
True Grit is a 2010 American Western film directed, written, produced, and edited by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. It is an adaptation of Charles Portis's 1968 novel. Starring Jeff Bridges as Deputy U.S. Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn and with Hailee Steinfeld in her theatrical film debut as Mattie Ross. The film also stars Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Barry Pepper. In the film, Fourteen-year-old precocious Arkansas farm girl Mattie Ross hires Cogburn, a grizzled, boozy, trigger-happy, mean and nasty lawman, to go after murderer/robber/outlaw Tom Chaney, who murdered her father while the two were on a trip to Fort Smith, Arkansas to purchase horses.
The bickering duo of peace officer and United States Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn and teen-ager Mattie, who employed him to bring Chaney to the law, are soon accompanied on their quest by a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf. who has been hunting Chaney for almost a year for killing a Texas state senator, and who has his own personality gripes and disputes with Marshal Cogburn. As the three embark on a dangerous hunt and adventure, they each have their "grit" tested in various ways. They discover that Chaney has joined up with another criminal gang led by "Lucky Ned" Pepper, played by Barry Pepper, whose gang has robbed a train and escaped to the adjacent lawless Indian Territory, where only Federal law and U.S. Marshals have authority.
Filming began in March 2010, and the film officially released in the United States on December 22, 2010, after advance screenings earlier that month.[5] The film opened the 61st Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2011.[6] It received positive reviews by critics with particular praise for its acting, directing, writing, story, score, and production values, with some deeming it superior to the earlier adaptation. It was nominated for ten Academy Awards, but won none: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Bridges), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Steinfeld), Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Sound Editing. The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD format film discs on June 7, 2011.
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