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True Grit Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Punishment Comes One Way Or Another

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Mar. 13, 2011

True Grit

Release Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 Nationwide

Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Steven Spielberg, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, Adam Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Scott Rudin, Megan Ellison, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 50 m

  • 4.1

83%

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Plot

What's the story about?

Plot
14-year-old Mattie Ross's (Hailee Steinfeld) father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.
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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in True Grit.

Crew Behind the Film

The True Grit behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Joel Coen last directed The Tragedy of MacBeth and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The film's writer Joel Coen last wrote The Tragedy of MacBeth and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

Producers
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
Scott Rudin

Additional Information

MPA Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for some intense sequences of western violence including disturbing images
Runtime
1 hr, 50 m
Tagline
Punishment Comes One Way Or Another
Also known as
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Language
English

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Production Details

What we know about the True Grit movie production.

Key Facts

  • Remake of the 1969 film.

Production Updates

Completed

The film was tagged as Completed.

Post-Production

The film was tagged as Post-Production.

Pre-Production

The film was tagged as Pre-Production.

Development

The film was tagged as Development.

Release Dates

When was the film released?

True Grit was released in nationwide movie theaters on Wednesday, December 22, 2010. in around 3,000 theaters There were 4 other movies released on the same date, including Little Fockers, Somewhere and Tees Maar Khan.



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  • Added a running time of 110 minutes

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