The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Western

USA 2007

Taking place in Missouri in the early 1880s, the film dramatizes the last seven months in the life of famed outlaw Jesse James, beginning with the Blue Cut train robbery of 1881 and culminating in his assassination at the hands of Robert Ford the following April. In the time between these two fateful events, the young and jealous Ford befriends the increasingly mistrustful outlaw, even as he plots his demise.

Director

• Andrew Dominik

Cast

• Brad Pitt
• Casey Affleck
• Sam Shepard
• Mary-Louise Parker
• Brooklynn Proulx
• Dustin Bollinger
• Sam Rockwell
• Jeremy Renner

Guide

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