No Country for Old Men
2007 film by Ethan and Joel Coen · Released May 19, 2007
No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, the film is set in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas, United States. The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance that the Coen brothers had explored in the films Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), and Fargo (1996). It follows three main characters: Llewelyn Moss (Brolin), a Vietnam War veteran and welder who stumbles upon a large sum of money in the desert, Anton Chigurh (Bardem), a hitman who is sent to recover the money, and Ed Tom Bell (Jones), a sheriff investigating the crime.
Cast ages at release (May 19, 2007)
- Tommy Lee Jones, as Ed Tom Bell: 60
- Javier Bardem, as Anton Chigurh: 38
- Josh Brolin, as Llewelyn Moss: 39
- Woody Harrelson, as Carson Wells: 45
- Kelly Macdonald, as Carla Jean Moss: 31
- Garret Dillahunt, as Wendell: 42
- Barry Corbin, as Ellis: 66
- Stephen Root, as Man Who Hires Wells: 55
- Tess Harper, as Loretta Bell: 56
- Beth Grant, as Carla Jean's Mother: 57
- Kathy Lamkin, as Desert Aire Manager: 59
- Caleb Landry Jones, as Boys on Bikes: 17
- Josh Blaylock, as Boys on Bikes: 17