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Stillwater
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[Opens July 30 in theaters.] Tom McCarthy's captivating, thought-provoking, well-acted, gritty, twist-filled,140-minute thriller reminiscent of the Amanda Knox case in Italy in which a widowed, tattooed, tenacious, cigarette-smoking, middle-aged unemployed oilrigger (Matt Damon), who works odd jobs in construction and disaster cleanup, leaves his oxygen-dependent mother-in-law (Deanna Dunagan) in Oklahoma to visit his estranged daughter (Abigail Breslin) who has been in prison for five years in Marseille for allegedly brutally killing her French-Arab partner and ends up building a relationship with a cause-loving theater actress (Camille Cottin) and her 9-year-old daughter (Lilou Siauvaud) when she befriends him and acts as a French interpreter while he continues to pressure his daughter's lawyer (Anne Le Ny) to reopen her case and doggedly searches for the Frenchman (Adir Azougli) who may have been responsible for the murder.

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2021
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