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Synopsis: In Texas, after the death of his mother, the unemployed oil and gas worker Toby Howard is losing his ranch to the Texas Midlands Bank. Toby is divorced from his wife who lives with their two sons. When his brother Tanner Howard is released from the prison, they team up to rob agencies of the Texas Midlands Bank to raise money to pay the loan so that Toby may leave the real estate to his sons. Meanwhile the Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton who is near retirement and his Indian descendant partner Alberto Parker try to anticipate the next move of the thieves.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): David Mackenzie
Production: Film 44
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 42 wins & 157 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
88
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
R
Year:
2016
102 min
$26,973,524
Website
2,407 Views


Wasn't much of a robbery,

got off with just under $7,000.

Took the drawer money,

20s and under,

only loose bills.

No ink pack?

Nope.

Smart.

That was smart.

Can we get a look at the video?

Let me introduce you to the

bank manager, Mr. Dauson.

This here is ranger Hamilton.

Ranger.

Sir.

Can we get a look at

the surveillance video?

We got cameras,

but they're switching us

over to a digital system

that feeds into the computer.

These new cameras

don't hook to our VCRs.

Call over

the young county sheriffs.

Ask them if they thought

to hook their cameras

to some sort of

recording device.

Armed?

Yes, sir. Pistols.

Oh.

Faces covered?

Ski masks, sweatshirts,

baggy pants...

Uh-huh.

Like them thugs in Dallas.

Tweakers maybe?

Maybe.

A little early in the

morning for tweakers.

Tweakers don't sleep.

They just tweak.

They rob drug stores

and parked cars, not banks.

Can I take a look inside?

Yes, sir.

Yeah, I'm here, Margaret.

So they bopped you

on the Schnozzola, huh?

Yes, sir.

Not very nice.

I know their faces was covered,

but could you tell their race?

Black, white?

Their skin or their souls?

Let's leave their souls

out of this for now.

White.

From around here

somewhere is my guess,

you know, from their voices.

Oh?

Young county says same deal

with the branch in Olney.

Excuse me.

Do they have video?

Same deal all the way around.

Doesn't Walmart sell all sorts

of electronic equipment?

My word.

Get your hands off that.

Well, these boys, they aren't

done yet, I'll tell you that.

How come?

Well, they're patient.

Just sticking to the drawers,

not taking the hundreds,

that's the bank's money,

we can trace that.

They're trying to raise a certain

amount, that's my guess.

It's gonna take

a few banks to get there.

Your boys know how

rich they're gonna be?

They don't know anything yet.

You take them to the funeral?

Like I said, they

don't know anything.

When's the last

time you saw them?

When we all went to the rodeo in

Stamford right after you got out.

That was a year ago. I

talk to them on the phone.

You talk to them on the phone?

You want a little advice?

No. No, I don't.

Go see them tomorrow.

You got any idea how much I

owe Debbie in child support?

You've got enough

in your front pocket

to fix that problem right now.

We can't spare it,

you know that.

Maybe we should

hit another branch.

You know, you talk like we ain't

gonna get away with this.

I've never met nobody who got

away with anything, ever. You?

Then why in the hell

did you agree to do it?

Because you asked,

little brother.

I got to sh*t like an old goat.

Grab the check,

meet me out front.

Well, if that isn't a hint,

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Taylor Sheridan

Taylor Sheridan (born May 21, 1970) is an American screenwriter, director and actor. Sheridan first reached prominence for portraying David Hale in the FX television series Sons of Anarchy. Sheridan has written several films, including the screenplay for Sicario (2015), for which he was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Hell or High Water (2016), which was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture. Credited with redefining the modern Western, Sheridan also wrote and directed the 2017 crime film Wind River and wrote Sicario's 2018 sequel. more…

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