RELEASE DATE RUNTIME IMDB ROTTENTOMATOES METACRITIC
Oct 20, 2023 3hr 26m 8.5 94% 90

Premise:

Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover.

Director(s):

Martin Scorsese

Writer(s):

Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese, David Grann
CAST
Leonardo DiCaprio Ernest Burkhart
Robert De Niro William Hale
Lily Gladstone Mollie Burkhart
Jesse Plemons Tom White
Tantoo Cardinal Lizzie Q
John Lithgow Prosecutor Peter Leaward
Brendan Fraser W.S. Hamilton
  • @CeruleanRuin
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    21 year ago

    I felt like Molly and the rest of the tribe were pushed into the background

    Having read the book, that was kind of the point. They didn’t have agency, because it was literally robbed from them at every moment. And during the part of the story where Ernest is under scrutiny and forced to own up to his sins, his wife is as passive as it can get, because she’s on death’s door and bed-ridden. It would be artificial to give her a big presence there, because in reality she was in the process of literally disappearing from the world. Molly actually gets more of an emotional presence onscreen, in part because the book is a more journalistic account and first hand sources of who she was are limited. I would like to have seen some scenes of her moving on with her life afterwards at the end in place of that weird epilogue.