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MEEK'S CUTOFF, from acclaimed director Kelly Reichardt (WENDY AND LUCY, OLD JOY), is a stark and poetic drama set in 1845, the earliest days of the treacherous Oregon Trail. A wagon train of three families (including two-time Academy Award® nominee Michelle Williams) has hired mountain man Step...

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Other Authors: Reichardt, Kelly (Director), Cuthrell, Elizabeth (Producer), Kopp, Neil, 1979- (Producer), Savjani, Anish (Producer), Urrutia, David (Producer)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York, NY : Oscilloscope Pictures, 2011.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Meek, Stephen Hall, > 1805-1889 > Drama.
Meek, Stephen Hall, > 1805-1889
Wagon trains > Drama.
Pioneers > Drama.
White people > Relations with Indians > Drama.
Meek's Cutoff (Or.) > Drama.
Pioneers
Wagon trains
White people > Relations with Indians
Oregon > Meek's Cutoff
western (motion picture genre)
Drama
Feature films
Fiction films
Western films
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Western films.
Films de fiction.
Westerns.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:MEEK'S CUTOFF, from acclaimed director Kelly Reichardt (WENDY AND LUCY, OLD JOY), is a stark and poetic drama set in 1845, the earliest days of the treacherous Oregon Trail. A wagon train of three families (including two-time Academy Award® nominee Michelle Williams) 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 must face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each others' 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 their natural born enemy.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed January 30, 2018).
Physical Description:1 online resource (102 min.)
Playing Time:01:42:28
Awards:Won 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards, Producers Awards, Anish Savjani
Won 2010 Gijón International Film Festival, Best Director, Kelly Reichardt
Won 2011 International Cinephile Society Awards, ICS Award, Best Picture Not Released in 2010
Won 2011 Internet Film Critic Society, IFCS Award, Most Underrated Film
Won 2010 Venice Film Festival, SIGNIS Award, Kelly Reichardt
Won 2011 Western Writers of America, Spur Award, Best Western Drama Script (Fiction) Jonathan Raymond, Tied with John Logan for Rango (2011)
Won 2011 Women Film Critics Circle Awards, Invisible Woman Award, Michelle Williams