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- The plot of this Western drama is based on a true event that occurred on the Oregon Trail in 1845, which involved a wagon train and frontier guide Stephen Meek, who led the wagon train on a dangerous journey through the Oregon desert.
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May 11, 2011 · It goes without saying that they had nothing to keep them home where they started from. Many started from hopelessness and died on the journey toward hope. Or wandered in the mountains. I learn that "Meek's Cutoff" was based on a true story. I didn't need to be told that.
Apr 6, 2011 · In “Meek’s Cutoff”—based on a true story—three families are guided westbound by the crude, mythomaniac con man Stephen Meek, who seems to have led them astray.
Apr 8, 2011 · Based loosely on a true story (and scripted by Reichardt's longtime collaborator Jon Raymond, who also co-wrote Todd Haynes' adaptation of Mildred Pierce), Meek's Cutoff follows a group...
- Dana Stevens
Apr 14, 2011 · Peter Bradshaw. Thu 14 Apr 2011 10.00 EDT. K elly Reichardt's gaunt, mysterious and superbly calibrated movie about pioneers and the old American west appears to have come from another age – from...
Apr 7, 2011 · “Meek’s Cutoff” is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). Lurking danger and implied brutality. MEEK’S CUTOFF. Opens on Friday in Manhattan.
- Kelly Reichardt
Apr 7, 2011 · Hitched quite literally this time: Meek's Cutoff, the second movie Michelle Williams has made with director Kelly Reichardt, is an inverted wagon-wheel Western with unrepentantly feminist...
Apr 8, 2011 · Rotten Tomatoes consensus was, "Moving at a contemplative speed unseen in most westerns, Meek's Cutoff is an effective, intense journey of terror and survival in the untamed frontier."
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