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True Grit
Director: Ethan Coen (Dir)
Release Date:   22 Dec 2010
Premiere Information:   Los Angeles and New York openings: 22 Dec 2010
Duration (in mins):   110
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Cast:   Jeff Bridges (Rooster Cogburn)  
    Matt Damon (LaBoeuf)  
    Josh Brolin (Tom Chaney)  
    Barry Pepper (Lucky Ned Pepper)  
    Hailee Steinfeld (Mattie Ross)  
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Production Company: Mike Zoss Productions  
  Skydance Productions  
Production Text: A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Productin
Distribution Company: Paramount Pictures  
Director: Ethan Coen (Dir)
  Joel Coen (Dir)
Producer: Scott Rudin (Prod)
  Ethan Coen (Prod)
  Joel Coen (Prod)
Writer: Joel Coen (Wrt for the screen by)
  Ethan Coen (Wrt for the screen by)
Photography: Roger Deakins (Dir of photog)
Art Direction: Jess Gonchor (Prod des)
Film Editor: Roderick Jaynes (Ed)
Costumes: Mary Zophres (Cost)
Music: Carter Burwell (Mus)
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Country: United States
Language: English
Music:
Songs:
Source Text: Based on the novel True Grit by Charles Portis (New York, 1968) and the serialized story of the same name in Saturday Evening Post (May--Jun 1968).
Authors: Charles Portis
Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number
Paramount Pictures Corporation 22/12/2010 dd/mm/yyyy PA1712295
Physical Properties: Sd: Dolby Digital; dts; SDDS Sony Dynamic Digital Sound in selected theatres
  col: Deluxe
  Lenses/Prints: Kodak Motion Picture Film
 
Genre: Western
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Bibliographic Sources:   Date   Page
Daily Variety   3 Dec 2010   p. 2, 51.
Hollywood Reporter   1 Dec 2010.   
Hollywood Reporter   12 Jan 2011.   
Los Angeles Times   22 Dec 2010.   
New York Times   21 Dec 2010.   
Variety   21 Dec 2010.   
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