Ethan & Joel Coen · 2010 · road

The Coen brothers' 2010 Western, from Charles Portis's novel. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross hires the drunken, one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn to track down the man who murdered her father, and insists on riding along. From Fort Smith, Arkansas, they cross into the wild Indian Territory of Oklahoma, joined by a Texas Ranger, on a hard pursuit that tests the girl's fierce resolve.

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   Fort Smith

   The Arkansas town on the edge of the frontier where the steely young Mattie Ross hires the hard-drinking Marshal Rooster Cogburn to hunt down her father's killer, Tom Chaney.

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   Indian Territory

   The lawless Oklahoma wilderness across the river into which the marshal, Mattie and the Texas Ranger LaBoeuf ride in pursuit, through winter country and outlaw camps.

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   The showdown

   The high plains clearing where the pursuit ends in a gunfight, Mattie faces Chaney herself, and a snakebitten night ride tests whether Cogburn's grit is equal to the girl's.