 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Starring: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeremy Renner, Paul Schneider, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel
Directed by: Andrew Dominik
Screenplay by: Ron Hansen
Release: September 21, 2007
MPAA Rating: R for some strong violence and brief sexual references.
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
 Domestic: $3,909,149 (26.1%)
Foreign: $11,092,627 (73.9%)
Total: $15,001,776 (Worldwide)
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 Jesse James [Brad Pitt] was one of the country’s first bona fide celebrities. There have been countless books written and tales told about America’s most famous outlaw—all of them colorful and fascinating, all focused on his larger-than-life public persona and daring exploits, and most of them bearing only incidental reference to the truth.
To those he robbed and terrorized, and to the families of those he admittedly killed, he may have been just a criminal, but in the sensational newspaper articles and dime novels chronicling the James Gang throughout the 1870s, Jesse was the object of awe and admiration.
He was a Robin Hood, they suggested, targeting railroad owners and banks that exploited poor farmers. He was a man with a tragic cause, a wronged and wounded Confederate soldier striking back against the Union that had ruined his life.
Most importantly, to an increasingly buttoneddown and citified population leading ordinary lives, he was the last frontiersman—a symbol of freedom and the American spirit, a charismatic rebel who flouted the law and lived by his own rules…by all accounts, a legend. Foremost among his admirers was Robert Ford [Casey Affleck], an idealistic and ambitious young man who had devoted his life to the hope of one day riding alongside his idol.
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