GODOGOOD filmreview : True Grit

True Grit  - Trailer
IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403865/
Wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Grit_(2010_film)

A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn young woman track down her father's murderer.

Directors: 

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Writers: 

Joel Coen (screenplay), Ethan Coen (screenplay),and 1 more credit »

Stars:

 Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Hailee Steinfeld

When Mattie Ross's father is murdered and his killer, Chaney, seems likely to remain unfound, 
the determined 14-year-old hires the meanest lawman she can find to pursue him: 
a hard-drinking U.S. Marshal named Rooster Cogburn. Accompanied by a Texas Ranger with his own agenda, 
the pair sets off into the Indian territories on Chaney's trail.


http://oscar.go.com/nominations/category/best-picture/synopsis/true-grit/681869

True Grit is one of those movies that does everything so well, that you hardly notice that it is doing it !
Multiple characters are introduced–some for no more than a few minutes.
... and yet they are memorable and handled by talented actors who understand what the Coens are looking for.


Despite being a 14-year old girl in a hard world, Mattie is more than capable of handling herself–whether it is dealing with crooked businessmen, or Texas Rangers treating her like a child. She soon convinces Cogburn to pursue Chaney, but with one condition—she wants to come with him. He protests, but she will not be refused, and soon the two are joined by Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Matt Damon), who is also after Chaney for a murder in Texas. 


http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/feb/13/true-grit-coen-brothers-review

The Coen brothers' excellent western True Grit is a second and rather different version of Charles Portis's novel, rather than a remake of the 1969 film that brought John Wayne an Oscar as the one-eyed bounty hunter Marshal Rooster Cogburn. Portis's novel, a demotic classic in the tradition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is narrated by Mattie Ross, a prim, Presbyterian spinster looking back from the 1920s to the great adventure of her life. In 1878, just 13 years after the civil war, she set out at the age of 14 to bring to justice the crooked hired hand Tom Chaney, who murdered her father in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Although she was well played by the 21-year-old Kim Darby as a perky modern miss in the first film, the picture was dominated by Wayne.