Montana Story

[Opens May 27 in theaters.] When a widowed, hotshot lawyer (John Ludin), who is cared for by a African-American hospice nurse (Gilbert Owuor) and a longtime employee (Kimberly Guerrero), ends up in a coma due to a traumatic head injury on a rundown, debt-ridden ranch in western Montana in Scott McGehee and David Siegel's engaging, realistic, down-to-earth, well-acted, 114-minute, 2021 neo-Western film with terrific scenery and cinematography, fragile and raw emotions surface after his guilt-ridden, mandolin-playing, civil engineer son (Owen Teague) living in Wyoming returns home followed by his estranged chef daughter (Haley Lu Richardson) who left for upstate New York seven years earlier as the siblings attempt to forgive and reconnect with each other while dealing with the fate of a gorgeous, 25-year-old black stallion.
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