RELEASE DATE | RUNTIME | IMDB | ROTTENTOMATOES | METACRITIC |
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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 | ||
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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 |
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.