The Weight
"A tale of good and evil."
Synopsis
When Samuel is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy offers him a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom.
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Status: Released
Director: Padraic McKinley
Website: Link
Main Cast
Ethan Hawke
Samuel Murphy
Russell Crowe
Warden Clancy
Julia Jones
Anna
Austin Amelio
Rankin
Avi Nash
Singh
Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen
Olson
Sam Hazeldine
Amis
George Burgess
Letender
Jeff Hallman
Big
Alec Newman
Taggert
User Reviews
Leno
I always love "frontier" movies. The thought of how it felt for the pioneers to explore an essentially lawless and unmaped wilderness is at the very least intellectually enticing and makes for a great movie. "The weight" is not quite a frontier movie because it's set in Klamath Falls during the great depression, a much later period, but still drinks from the same fountain by describing a group of convicts carrying a heavy gold cargo through wilderness with the hopes it will grant them freedom. The plot twists are quite predictable and the end very vanilla and exactly what the viewer will expect, but it's an overall fun movie and the visuals make it better.
