The Weight

When Samuel is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy offers him a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom.

Cast

Ethan Hawke

as Samuel Murphy

Russell Crowe

as Warden Clancy

Julia Jones

as Anna

Austin Amelio

as Rankin

Avi Nash

as Singh

Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen

as Olson

Sam Hazeldine

as Amis

George Burgess

as Letender

Jeff Hallman

as Big Prisoner

Alec Newman

as Taggert

Reviews

Leno

I always love "frontier" movies. The thought of how it felt for the pioneers to explore an essentially lawless and unmaped wilderness is at the very least intellectually enticing and makes for a great movie. "The weight" is not quite a frontier movie because it's set in Klamath Falls during the grea...

CinemaSerf

Struggling to keep the roof over the heads of himself and his daughter, "Murphy" (Ethan Hawke) gets embroiled in a fist-fight that sees him condemned to an hard labour sentence and his daughter taken into care. He knows that his chances of getting her back before she is adopted are fairly remote, bu...

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