The Weight
The Weight
A tale of good and evil.
6.7/10 Good 73 votes
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Original title
- The Weight
- Language
- en
What it is about
When Samuel is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy offers him a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom.
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Cast
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Ethan Hawke
Samuel Murphy -
Russell Crowe
Warden Clancy -
Julia Jones
Anna -
Austin Amelio
Rankin -
Avi Nash
Singh -
Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen
Olson -
Sam Hazeldine
Amis -
George Burgess
Letender - Jeff Hallman Big Prisoner
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Alec Newman
Taggert -
Avy-Berry Worrall
Penny - Cameron Brady The Man
- Eric Ford Flat Nose
- Peter Lewys Preston Ed Akers
- Neil McGarry The Pastor
Crew
- Director Padraic McKinley
- Screenplay Shelby Gaines
- Screenplay Matthew Booi
- Story Leo Scherman
- Story Matthew Chapman
- Original Music Composer Shelby Gaines
- Original Music Composer Latham Gaines
- Director of Photography Matteo Cocco
- Editor Padraic McKinley
- Editor Matthew Woolley
- Producer Simon Fields
- Producer Nathan Fields
- Producer Ryan Hawke
- Producer Jonas Katzenstein
- Producer Maximilian Leo
- Executive Producer Ralf Berchtold
- Executive Producer Frédéric Fiore
- Executive Producer Céline Dornier
- Executive Producer Andreas Rübo
- Executive Producer Klaus Dohle
- Executive Producer Peter Block
- Executive Producer Peter Jarowey
- Executive Producer Richard Goldberg
What viewers said
I always love "frontier" movies. The thought of how it felt for the pioneers to explore an essentially lawless and unmaped wilderness is at the very least intellectually enticing and makes for a great movie. […]
Leno — 7/10 · read in full
Struggling to keep the roof over the heads of himself and his daughter, "Murphy" (Ethan Hawke) gets embroiled in a fist-fight that sees him condemned to an hard labour sentence and his daughter taken into care. He knows that his chances of getting her back before she is adopted are fairly remote, but perhaps the boss at his road-building camp might be able to help? […]
CinemaSerf — 6/10 · read in full
