Young Ones

YOUNG ONES gives us a futuristic Western so bleak that its pitiless tone becomes downright mesmerizing.

NO LONGER PLAYING

Young Ones

YOUNG ONES is set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships. The land has withered into something wretched. The dust has settled on a lonely, barren planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth's precious resources scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm (Michael Shannon) lives on this harsh frontier with his children, Jerome (Kodi Smit McPhee) and Mary (Elle Fanning). He defends his farm from bandits, works the supply routes, and hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But Mary's boyfriend, Flem Lever (Nicholas Hoult), has grander designs. He wants Ernest's land for himself, and will go to any length to get it. From writer-director Jake Paltrow comes a futuristic western, told in three chapters, which inventively layers Greek tragedy over an ethereal narrative that's steeped deeply in the values of the American West.
R
Genre
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Runtime
100
Language
English
Director
Jake Paltrow
Cast
Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Elle Fanning, Kodi Smit-McPhee

Young Ones Get Tickets

There are currently no showtimes for this film. Please check back soon.