A vow of vengeance drives a fourteen-year-old farm girl across unforgiving frontier country in True Grit, the 2010 western from directors Ethan Coen and Joel Coen.
What is True Grit about?
After a hired hand guns down her father and flees, Mattie Ross refuses to leave the matter to the local sheriff. She tracks down Rooster Cogburn, a hard-drinking, one-eyed U.S. Marshal with a fearsome reputation, and all but forces him to take her along on the chase into Indian Territory. A Texas lawman pursuing the same man for his own reasons joins them uninvited, and the mismatched trio pushes deeper into hostile country than any of them expected, testing loyalties none of them are eager to admit they need.
About the cast
The cast lines up in the brief's own billing order: Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin lead the film, with Barry Pepper, Dakin Matthews, Jarlath Conroy and Paul Rae rounding out the frontier around them.
Context & significance
The catalogue lists True Grit under three genres at once — adventure, drama and western — and the joint direction of Ethan Coen and Joel Coen keeps the tone dry rather than sentimental, even as the story leans on classic frontier furniture: horses, saloons, and a long ride across empty ground. Released in 2010 and running 110 minutes, the film gives its pursuit room to slow down and speed back up without ever feeling rushed, a pace that suits a story carried more by its characters' stubbornness than by set pieces.
Watching True Grit on Ktime
True Grit streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can pick whichever fits the evening. Watching requires only a free K-Time account login — the film's page itself is open to read without one, part of K-Time's Farsi-first approach to English-language cinema for Iranian audiences abroad.