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No Country for Old Men

film by Joel and Ethan Coen [2007]
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No Country for Old Men, 2007 neo-western directed and written by Ethan and Joel Coen, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. The film follows the tense pursuit of a man who finds and takes millions of dollars from the scene of a drug deal gone wrong. He is hunted by a hired hit man with a warped moral code and trailed by a world-weary sheriff who wants to rescue...

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