Film poster for 'No Country for Old Men'.
Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen in 2007, No Country for Old Men is an American thriller film based on a book written by Cormac McCarthy. The story is about an ordinary man who is delivered a fortune that isn't his and him and two others cross paths in a 1980 West Texas desert landscape. The themes in the film include: fate, conscience and circumstance.
No Country for Old Men was awarded 4 Oscars at the 2007 Academy Awards, 3 British Film Academy Awards and it was selected at the best of 2007 by the National Board of Review.
Joel and Ethan Coen grew up in St. Louis Park, Minnesota and went to St. Louis Park high school and then Bard College at Simon's Rock in Massachusetts. In 1984 the brothers wrote and directed their first film together - Blood Simple. Since then they have been writing and directing various films together.
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