2017 Academy Award® Nominee
Thursday, February 2 | 8 pm
One of the sleeper hits of 2016, Hell or High Water has now been nominated for four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor, Jeff Bridges. Across a series of dusty West Texas towns, a pair of armed robbers is knocking off branches of the Texas Midland Bank. As we quickly discover, the thieves are brothers, Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner Howard (Ben Foster), who have set off on their crime spree to save their family ranch from foreclosure. After laundering the money in an Oklahoma casino, the pair plans their next heist—even as Bridges, a Texas Ranger named Marcus Hamilton, and his longsuffering Native American partner, Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham), lie in wait for the criminal duo. Hell or High Water ranks among the most consistently engaging and well crafted of this year’s nominees.
Director David Mackenzie 2016 United States 102 minutes R (for some strong violence, language throughout and brief sexuality) DCP
