Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Meek's cutoff [videorecording] / Oscilloscope Laboratories presents ; an Evenstar Films, Filmscience, Harmony/Primitive Nerd production ; produced by Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani ... [et al.] ; screenplay by Jon Raymond ; directed by Kelly Reichardt.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Oscilloscope Pictures, c2010.

Description:

1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When they encounter a Native American, they must choose between following their guide or an 'enemy.'

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG; some mild violent content, brief language and smoking.

Subjects:

Meek, Stephen Hall, 1805-1889 -- Drama.

Wagon trains -- Drama.

Pioneers -- Drama.

Trails -- Oregon -- Drama.

Feature films.

Western films.

Meek's Cutoff (Or.) -- Drama.

Other Author:

Kopp, Neil, 1979-