GRIT RESTORED: Marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) and Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) track the killer of the girl’s father in this stylized Coen brothers remake. PHOTO BY LOREY SEBASTIAN. © 2010 PARAMOUNT PICTURES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
True Grit
Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
True Grit is the last thing you'd expect from the movies' most resolutely ironic brother act, the writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen: a labor of love. They set out to adapt Charles Portis's charming novel faithfully, correcting the errors of the 1969 Henry Hathaway version, a stock western memorable only for John Wayne's performance as the tippling marshal Rooster Cogburn.
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