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Synopsis: Certain Women drops us into a handful of intersecting lives across Montana. A lawyer (Laura Dern) tries to defuse a hostage situation and calm her disgruntled client (Jared Harris), who feels slighted by a workers' compensation settlement. A married couple (Michelle Williams and James Le Gros) breaks ground on a new home but exposes marital fissures when they try to persuade an elderly man to sell his stockpile of sandstone. A ranch hand (Lily Gladstone) forms an attachment to a young lawyer (Kristen Stewart), who inadvertently finds herself teaching a twice-weekly adult education class, four hours from her home.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Kelly Reichardt
Production: Film Science
  12 wins & 45 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
R
Year:
2016
107 min
$1,037,787
2,380 Views


could you just give me a sign

that Big Man is doing alright?

[police radio chatter]

- Hey, Will.

Good news. Your lawyer's here.

Thanks for coming down.

- Yeah.

-Uh, got Fuller on the phone.

Well, we had him on the phone.

Uh, he seemed calm.

He's holding the night watchman.

- Wait, that's the one

they call "Big Man."

-Yeah. Football player.

-How'd Fuller take him down?

-No idea.

Oh, um, oh..

Well, this is Mac.

Our resident hospital

specialist.

So, uh, he's got Big Man

up here on the 3rd floor.

Uh, here's where

they keep the dead files.

And, uh, this is a little sketch

to, to find your way in.

- Wow, really?

- Oh, yeah.

Little precaution.

- As soon as you take off

your coat, please.

Okay.

-Alright, arms out.

-I remember you.

You, uh..

You wrote a report for

a child custody case of mine.

The defendant instructed me

to consume feces.

Hey, is this a sane thing

to be doing?

- While you're doing that.

Here, Tommy.

Uh..

- Oh. Okay.

- Yeah. Okay, I want you

to take this.

Take it in with you,

I'll call it.

You pick it up,

so we know you're okay.

You don't pick up,

we're wondering.

- You don't have to go in there.

There's other ways

to go about this.

-No, we got this handled.

Don't need any big

production, right, Wells?

-Well, I'm here.

So..

- Okay, you just, you know,

keep him engaged

in the, in the conversation.

You know, just try

to be compassionate.

You know, let him feel like

he's being heard.

It's important that he sees you

as being his advocate.

And there's nothing wrong with

throwing blame on someone else.

You know, blame the system,

you know.

Make him feel like

you're on his side.

- You... you got that, Wells?

Keep him talking.

Here you go. Take this.

-Okay.

-Don't sweat it.

You'll be great.

Oh, just right in there.

- Center door.

- Okay.

[distant chatter]

Fuller?

It's me.

I'm here to find your file.

Should I come to you,

or go get the file?

- Go get the file.

Is Big Man okay?

- It's, uh, it's Amituana.

- You know, he's a member

of the Samoan royal family.

- Huh.

No, I didn't.

Mm-hmm.

So, uh, does that

make him a prince?

- Uh, sort of.

If 14 people die, I'll be king.

-Wow.

How likely is that?

- Not very.

-Okay.

I've got the file.

Should I come?

- We're in the 3rd cubicle

from the door.

I'm sorry to get you out of bed.

Sit down.

-Hey.

I'm Laura Wells.

-Amituana.

-Read me the file.

Not the stuff I said. Just

the stuff they said about me.

I wanna hear all the letters.

- That would take all night.

It's, uh..

-So start.

- "Dear Sir/Madam,

enclosed herewith

"please find a copy

of the investigative report

"pertaining

to case file number 117-616.

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Kelly Reichardt

Kelly Reichardt is a screenwriter and film director working within American indie cinema. Her credits include Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff, Night Moves and Certain Women. more…

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