Desperate to save what is left of his family, during the height of the Great Depression, a battle-scarred veteran is hired to help smuggle a fortune in gold across 100 miles of impenetrable wilderness.
Oregon 1933: Samuel Murphy (Ethan Hawke) is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp. Warden Clancy (Russell Crowe) tempts him with early release if he smuggles gold through deadly wilderness, but betrayal festers within the crew, and Murphy questions how far he'll go to see his child again. This is a gripping, hard-hitting thriller, elevated by Hawke's magnetic performance; Crowe’s impressive aura which makes us lament his current infrequency of leading roles; and McKinley's assured direction which has us cheering on the film’s anti-hero. This is the kind of atmospheric, exciting period action films we don’t really get much anymore.
Germany/Canada/USA 2026 Padraic McKinley 113m
