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The Old Man & the Gun
2018 film by David Lowery
The Old Man & the Gun is a 2018 American biographical[a]crime film written and directed by David Lowery, about Forrest Tucker, a career criminal and prison escape artist. The script is loosely based on David Grann's 2003 article in The New Yorker titled "The Old Man and the Gun", which was later collected in Grann's 2010 book The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. The film stars Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, Tom Waits and Sissy Spacek. Redford, then 82 years old, announced his intent to retire from acting after completion of the film[4] Redford's brief appearance in Avengers: Endgame (2019) was filmed before he made The Old Man & the Gun.
The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States by Fox Searchlight Pictures on September 28, 2018. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, and Redford was nominated for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the 76th Golden Globe Awards.
Plot
[edit]Career criminal Forrest Tucker, a wanted man for two years since his daring escape from San Quentin State Prison in 1979, has just robbed another bank. While evading polic
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Betsy Cass is a fan of David Lowery’s later work, but she still struggles with his sober, derivative, Texas cosplay western romance Ain’t Them Bodies Saints from 2013.
There’s an emptiness at the core of Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. Not an intentional, philosophical emptiness, but rather a hollow lacking. I felt it the first time I watched the film at a pre-release screening during SIFF, but I’ve been curious in the intervening years to see if I’d warm up to it given my deep fondness for some of director David Lowery’s later work. I was always surprised how sanguine initial reactions to the film seemed to be, especially because I felt like if anyone would like this movie, it should be me. I’m a hardcore Badlands-head, a surprising supporter of the revisionist Western, and a complete casting nerd. I could not scream “target demographic” more. Yet I’ve always found the film to be a wasted opportunity and a work that didn’t quite justify its own existence.
It was one of those movies I know I’d been waiting forever to see but, looking back, I wonder what specifically put it on my radar. I’d never heard of David Lowery. I assumed (until pretty recently, actually) that this was his first film, and knew nothing of his association with a cadre of other Texas-based indie