2015 · western · action · drama
Jane Got a Gun
Directed by Gavin O'Connor1h 38m2015
After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.
Our read: Jane Got a Gun (2015) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded western · action · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured western / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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- intense
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