MOVIE · 2011
The Sunset Limited
Drama91 min
After pulling a stranger away from an oncoming subway train, Samuel L. Jackson is a deeply religious ex-con who takes the shaken man back to his New York apartment. Opposite Tommy Lee Jones’s isolated college professor, that rescue becomes an intense conversation about faith, reason, despair, and whether one person can talk another back from the edge. Adapted from Cormac McCarthy’s play, the film narrows its focus to two men in one room, each defending a worldview the other cannot accept as they circle the professor’s suicide attempt and the beliefs that brought them there.
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