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Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel-first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory. True Grit is eccentric,…

Впервые на русском - "эпический, легендарный роман" (The Washington Post) от "величайшего писателя из тех, о которых вы никогда не слышали" (The Boston Herald), однажды уже перенесенный на киноэкран (главную роль исполнил не менее легендарный Джон Уэйн, получив за нее единственного в своей звездной карьере "Оскара"). И вот в январе 2011 года в российский прокат выходит новая экранизация этой культовой классики: постановщики - знаменитые братья Коэн ("Старикам тут не место", "По прочтении сжечь") в ролях - Джефф Бриджес, Мэтт Дэймон, Джош Бролин. Итак, четырнадцатилетняя Мэтти Росс отправляется мстить за убийство отца - в компании…

There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, $150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces. Ross's unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body, and finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dark, dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down and avenge her father's murder.

Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne and now the film by the Coen brothers starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side,…

Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street. Ross' 14-year-old daughter Mattie finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down.

Четырнадцатилетняя Мэтти Росс отправляется мстить за убийство отца - в компании одноглазого судебного исполнителя Кочета Когберна и заносчивого техасского рейнджера по фамилии Лабеф; следы убийцы ведут на Индейскую территорию, где властвуют свои законы, а прав тот, кто успеет выстрелить первым.