Written by: Thomas Bezucha (screenplay), Larry Watson (novel) But after a nasty dinner meeting with Lorna’s new “family,” it doesn’t take long for the best-laid plans to sink in a dangerous and septic quagmire of horror. Obsessed with the idea of saving their once happily married, now widowed daughter-in-law and their cherished 3-year-old grandson from a bleak and hopeless future, they head for the wilderness on a rescue mission. Margaret is a gentle soul who loves horses and children George is a retired sheriff turned rancher, calloused by the mean-spirited world he witnessed as a lawman. In time, Margaret witnesses Lorna’s descent into misery and domestic abuse after unwisely marrying a cruel and violent brute who mistreats her and the baby, then abruptly moves them off in the middle of the night without so much as a simple goodbye to live with his own family in a remote section of the Dakotas. Costner and Lane play George and Margaret Blackledge, a Montana couple whose lives are shattered when their son dies suddenly on the ranch, leaving behind his grieving wife Lorna (Kayli Carter) and his newborn son Jimmy.
And the people in Let Him Go are so worth knowing that you want to know them even better. This time the writer-director is Thomas Bezucha, a promising talent who knows the value of filming at the kind of leisurely pace that allows you enough time to get to know the characters well. One of the best is Let Him Go, an uneven but satisfying domestic thriller starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane, two accomplished and mesmerizing contemporary screen icons who just keep getting better every time they hear a director yell “Action!” and the camera rolls.
#LET HIM GO MOVIE#
At last we know the true meaning of cinematic despair.Īs movie houses make a bold effort to return to normal, I’m grateful for the few rare films that have managed to slip through the fence. points faster than you adjust your face mask in order to breathe, then the doors are suddenly wide open. If there is such a thing as a storage room for low-budget thrillers without thrills populated by actors nobody ever heard of, or idiot comedies guaranteed to wreak havoc on your I.Q. To see one, you have to own a car and find a drive-in theater, or sit in a straight-back chair for hours glued to a laptop computer staring at a screen the size of a small kitchen chopping board. Thanks to the toxicity of the coronavirus pandemic that has altered the world as we used to know it, I doubt if anyone can seriously challenge the conviction that 2020 will go down in the books as the worst year in the history of the arts. Diane Lane and Kevin Costner star in director Thomas Bezucha’s Let Him Go.
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