HELL OR HIGH WATER (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Chris Pine (Star Trek), Ben Foster (The Program), Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski), Katy Mixon (State of Play), Gil Birmingham (The Lone Ranger), Christopher W. Garcia (A Million Ways to Die in the West), Dale Dickey (Winter’s Bone), Kevin Rankin (Dallas Buyers Club), Melanie Papalia (Smiley)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

David Mackenzie (Starred Up), director; Taylor Sheridan (Sicario), writer; Peter Berg (Lone Survivor), Carla Hacken (Demolition), Sidney Kimmel (The Place Beyond The Pines) and Julie Yorn (Unstoppable), producers; Nick Cave (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) and Warren Ellis (Lawless), composers; Giles Nuttgens (Young Adam), cinematographer; Jake Roberts (Brooklyn), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Two brothers, divorced dad Toby (Pine) and ex-convict Tanner (Foster), plan a series of bank robberies to help save their family farm from foreclosure, and as they pull off one heist after another they are pursued by a couple of aging Texas Rangers, including Marcus (Bridges) and Parker (Birmingham)…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

After making a serious splash with his feature screenwriting debut Sicario, actor-turned-writer Taylor Sheridan now brings us the story of two brothers doing what they must in times of desperation, with some intense and thrilling results.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2016

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