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14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.

Keywords

  • American Independent Films
  • Best first feature
  • Best Novels Adaptation
  • Best Novels Adaptation (home)
  • Cannes: La Semaine de la Critique
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Festival de Cannes - Tax Shelter
  • Film Fest Gent !
  • Film Fest Gent (home)
  • Love Affairs
  • Just released
  • Nominated @ The Oscars 2021
  • Sundance Film Festival !
  • debut
  • economy

Actors

  • Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Tom Huston Orr
  • Ginger Gilmartin
  • Travis W. Bruyer
  • Michael Gibbons
  • Darryl Cox
  • J. Alan Davidson
  • John Walpole
  • Carey Mulligan
  • Bill Camp
  • Zoe Margaret Colletti
  • Mollie Milligan
  • Ed Oxenbould

Director

  • Paul Dano

Drama

1h 46min

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United States
2018
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.


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