 No Country for Old Men
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Beth Grant, Garret Dillahunt
Directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen
Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen
Release Date: November 9, 2007
MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic violence and some language.
Studio: Paramount Vantage
 Domestic: $74,283,625 (46.1%)
Foreign: $86,737,910 (53.9%)
Total: $161,021,531 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: There are no clean getaways.
At once a modern legend and a literary maverick, Cormac McCarthy was already renowned for his extraordinary stories set against the changing American West when he published No Country For Old Men in 2003. The book, featuring one of his most visceral, multi-layered and contemporary stories, was an instant success.
A sinewy, suspenseful, humor-spiked thriller, McCarthy's page-turning tale of an honest man who happens upon $2.4 million in cash on the Texas borderlands is a story of headlong pursuit. It's also a provocative meditation on good and evil in a modern West that has grown into a land more violent and lawless than the mythic frontier of yore.
At the heart of the story lie some of McCarthy's most evocative themes, which he has explored in ten novels that have become classics: the fast-approaching end of an entire way of Western life; the last stand of honor and justice against a broken world; the ongoing human struggle against the sinister; the dark comedy and violence of modern times; the interplay of temptation, survival and sacrifice; and, added into the mix, a touch of sustaining love and a sliver of hope in the darkness.
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