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Synopsis: Certain Women drops us into a handful of intersecting lives across Montana. A lawyer (Laura Dern) tries to defuse a hostage situation and calm her disgruntled client (Jared Harris), who feels slighted by a workers' compensation settlement. A married couple (Michelle Williams and James Le Gros) breaks ground on a new home but exposes marital fissures when they try to persuade an elderly man to sell his stockpile of sandstone. A ranch hand (Lily Gladstone) forms an attachment to a young lawyer (Kristen Stewart), who inadvertently finds herself teaching a twice-weekly adult education class, four hours from her home.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Kelly Reichardt
Production: Film Science
  12 wins & 45 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
R
Year:
2016
107 min
$1,037,787
2,722 Views


They wrote back and forth

all year.

Then he got furloughed

and she went to live with him.

She sent me a letter.

They're living on a farm.

And, uh, they got 40 cats.

And she's never been so happy.

[chuckles]

Can you believe that?

She mailed me the letter

from another town

so that I couldn't find her.

-But do you wanna find her?

-Yeah.

No.

I don't know.

[sighs]

A guy in prison.

I can't believe she found

a guy in prison.

I'm a guy in prison.

What's wrong with me?

-What'd the guy do?

- She won't tell me.

Probably an axe murderer.

It's Wyoming.

[chuckling]

Did you get my letter?

-Yeah.

You never wrote back to me.

- I meant to.

I, uh..

I kept meaning to.

- Man, you wouldn't believe

how... how good mail feels.

Think I told you that.

- I just didn't know

what to say.

- Oh, that's the thing..

You don't have to say

anything special.

[chuckles]

I told you, it's okay

about what happened.

You know, they...

They would've got me anyway.

I f***ed up.

But I mean this.

You could talk about anything.

Talk about the weather.

Talk about your day.

Just so you...

put it in an envelope

and... put it in the mail.

Doesn't have to be a tome.

-Okay.

[sportscaster on TV]

[guitar music]

[chatter]

[guitar music]

-Awesome.

Stop working.

- Yes?

- Can you get me a beer?

Just kidding.

- They see far too often

this year for Montana state..

-What?

[guitar music]

[guitar music continues]

[music continues]

[water running]

[chatter over radio]

- If you don't have to drive,

well, then, don't drive.

[horse snorts]

I made a mistake,

I left the house..

I had to go to the bank

and cash some checks

and I should have known,

should have stayed at home.

And instead of this one..

It's colder in Europe

in the north..

I don't know.

It doesn't matter how many..

[guitar music]

[music continues]

[music continues]

[music continues]

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Kelly Reichardt

Kelly Reichardt is a screenwriter and film director working within American indie cinema. Her credits include Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff, Night Moves and Certain Women. more…

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