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With Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin. A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.
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Plot – Mattie Ross, a young woman who owns a farm, hires Rooster Cogburn, a senior sheriff with "True Grit", to capture the outlaw Tom Chaney, who killed her father. Mattie and Rooster Cogburn set off towards the mountains where the criminal has allegedly found refuge. La Boeuf, a young Texas Ranger in search of the same outlaw, soon joins them.
- Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn
- Mattie Ross
- Col. Stonehill
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You go for a man hard enough and fast enough, he don't have time to think about how many's with him; he thinks about himself, and how he might get clear of that wrath that's about to set down on him.[LaBoeuf has been talking about malum prohibitum and malum in se]I'm struck that LaBoeuf has been shot, trampled, and nearly severed his tongue, and not only does he not cease to talk but he spills...If he [Tom Chaney] is not in a shallow grave somewhere between here and Fort Smith, he is gone, long gone. Thanks to Mr. LaBoeuf we missed our shot! He barked and the birds have flown. Gone, gone,...[Opening voice-over, as an adult]People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood, but it did happen. I was just 14 years...And "futile," Marshal Cogburn, "pursuit would be futile"? It's not spelled "f-u-d-e-l."[Final voice-over, as an adult, after learning of Rooster's death]I had the body removed to our plot, and I have visited it over the years. No doubt people talk about that. They say, "Well, she har...I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world as it is, is vexing enough.I would not pay three hundred and twenty-five dollars for winged Pegasus!Repentant condemned man: [sobbing]Ladies and gentlemen, beware, and train up your children in the way that they should go. You see what has become of me because of drink. I killed a man in a trifli...Unrepentant condemed man: Well, I killed the wrong man is the which of why I'm here. Had I killed the man I meant to, I don't believe I'd have been convicted. I see men out there in that crowd that...Condemned Indian: Before I am hanged, I would like to say— [executioner places hood over his head]Rooster Cogburn: The jakes is occupied.Mattie Ross: I know it is occupied, Mr. Cogburn. As I said, I have business with you.Rooster: I have prior business.Mattie: You have been at it for quite some time, Mr. Cogburn.Rooster: There is no clock on my business! To hell with you! How did you stalk me here?Mattie: The sheriff told me to look in the saloon. In the saloon they referred me here. We must talk.Punishment comes one way or another.Retribution.Jeff Bridges - U.S. Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" CogburnTrue Grit quotes at the Internet Movie DatabaseTrue Grit at Rotten TomatoesThe official True GritsiteTrue Grit (2010) quotes. View Quote Condemned Indian: Before I am hanged, I would like to say— [executioner places hood over his head] View Quote Repentant condemned man: [sobbing] Ladies and gentlemen, beware, and train up your children in the way that they should go. You see what has become of me because of drink.
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True Grit is a 2010 American Western film directed, written, produced, and edited by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. It is an adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name. Starring Jeff Bridges as Deputy U.S. Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn and with young new actress Hailee Steinfeld (in her theatrical film debut) as Mattie Ross.