Meek’s Cutoff

Tough and sparely beautiful...under Oregon skies, there's political subtext for the taking in this terrific, unsettling film.
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

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Meek’s Cutoff

The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst and their own lack of faith in one another's instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as a natural born enemy.

“In this quiet, beautiful and terrifying fable about a group of lost pioneers, Reichardt combines epic ambition with a focus on intimate, personal detail.” (Andrew O’Hehir, Salon)

A “tough, quiet revelation of a movie.” (A.O. Scott, New York Times)
PG
Genre
Drama, Western
Web Site
http://meekscutoff…
Runtime
101
Language
English
Director
Kelly Reichardt
Cast
Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Paul Dano, Bruce Greenwood, Zoe Kazan, Shirley Henderson
FEATURED REVIEW
A.O. Scott, New York Times

The first thing you see in “Meek’s Cutoff,” after a hand-scrawled title card placing the action in the Oregon Territory in 1845, is a small group of settlers fording a river. It’s a treacherous, tedious undertaking, and Kelly Reichardt, the director of this tough, quiet revelation of a movie, films ...

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