Saturday, January 8, 2011

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Actors: Brad Pitt , Mary-Louise Parker , Sam Rockwell , Sam Shepard , Casey Affleck , Garret Dillahunt , Jeremy Renner , Paul Schneider , Brooklynn Proulx , J.C. Roberts , Jonathan Erich Drachenberg , Joel McNichol , Darrell Orydzuk , James Defelice , Dustin Bollinger
Director: Andrew Dominik
IMDB Rate: 7.7 out of 10 (52586 votes)
Plot Summary:The last months of Jesse Jamess life, from meeting Robert Ford, a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse, to the day Ford shoots him. Jesses a wanted man, living under a pseudonym, carrying out a train robbery, disappearing to Kentucky, and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Roberts brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead, arrested, or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesses around, theres tension hes murderous, quixotic, depressed, and cautious. Ford wants to be somebody and wants the reward. On April 3, 1882, things come to a head Jesse is 34, Robert 20. Ford becomes famous, reenacting the shooting on stage, facing down the label coward, shot dead in 1892.

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