The film tells the story of an American marshal Cogburn and Texas Ranger, each facing a different experience. Now, they are all embarking on a new mission when 14-year-old Mattie Ross hires them to track down Tom Chaney, who killed her father on Indian territory.
If I had to pick only one True Grit movie to take to the proverbial desert island, it'd be Hathaway's, Wayne's, Ballard's and, while we're at it, Elmer Bernstein's...
The girl with the strength of a man, and the man with a sensitive heart (albeit under layers of crust). The calculated softening of Wayne's macho persona at long last won him the Oscar. [Blu-ray]
By growing old disgracefully as the fat, swaggering Rooster Cogburn, Wayne proves he can act -- and solves his own senior-citizen problem in one master stroke.
