Gus Van Sant’s
Promised Land -- co-written by stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski from a story by novelist Dave Eggers -- is the kind of socially conscious movie that Robert Redford has been trying to make for pretty much his entire directing career, and it’s so much more than a political tract precisely because, unlike Redford, the filmmakers never forget to keep the human stories -- not the issues -- front and center.
Damon stars as Steve Butler, a representative for a natural-gas company who, as the movie opens, travels with his colleague Sue (Frances McDormand) to a small, financially struggling rural community in order to buy up land rights so his ...
Released:
2012
Rated:
R
Length:
n/a