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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
2,394 Views


-I'm letting Amituana go.

Alright.

If you, if you get

to be king of Samoa

and, uh, I show up there

you'll have a job for me, right?

You remember. I got screwed,

and I let you go.

- Sure.

- Okay.

Buddy, take the stairs,

and you go on outside.

And tell them if they try

anything, I'll kill the woman.

She's my lawyer.

I got reason to kill her.

You tell 'em that.

You can still help me.

- Yeah, if... if... if you

turn yourself in

we can turn up a mental defense,

and get you a good lawyer.

- I'll slip out the back,

where they don't expect me

you go out the front

to the parking lot

where you came in,

and keep 'em busy.

Stand near the door and pretend

I've got the gun on you.

And relay messages to the cops

like I'm hiding there.

Tell them I want a car.

And I want $3,000.

And I want an hour's head start.

Afterwards, they'll never know

I wasn't there with the gun.

Just give me a chance

to get out the back

and get away.

- Uh, don't you think

there's cops out back too?

- No, no, they,

they all stayed out front

where I told them I'd come out.

Will you do it?

- Okay.

It'd be so much better for you

if you turn yourself in.

- We're coming out.

Let's go.

Okay.

Okay.

Now, you wait a minute..

Before you go out.

Alright?

Okay?

- Okay.

[door shuts]

He's in the back.

He's unarmed.

[police radio chatter]

-You did good.

[radio chatter]

[bird squawking]

[water gushing]

[girl laughing]

-Hey.

What's so funny?

- Uh, nothing.

- How'd you sleep?

- Fine.

- You didn't hear

those coyotes howling?

-I was asleep.

- How was your run?

-Fine.

What were you two

laughing about?

- Oh, nothing.

I was, um..

I was showing her my poses.

This is "The Crab."

We call it "The Crab."

At least she thought

it was funny.

- Uh-huh.

[wind gusting]

- You hear those

coyotes last night?

- Crazy.

- Yeah.

I wonder what they got.

- I don't know.

I'm gonna put this stuff

in the car.

-Here.

Thanks for helping out.

- No one asked me.

-No one asked me to either.

I just kinda figured it out

all by myself.

- Did you brush your teeth?

- Yeah.

-Really?

'Cause your toothbrush

is in here

and there's a bottle of water.

-Mom, I said I brushed them.

- Okay. Because now

would be a good time.

- Oh God! Why you even

bother asking me

if you're never gonna

believe me anyway?

- Now?

- The sandstone.

- Wait, what, you...

- One more stop.

- You said I wouldn't

be out all day.

You said I could have

Sunday at home.

-I'm gonna grab the fence.

[car door shuts]

[engine cranking]

- You know, Guthrie, you might

get a kick out of this.

It's got sandstone

from pioneer days.

Chiseled by pioneer hands.

It was a school house once.

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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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