A critically acclaimed, award winning 2007 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, the film features Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem. It has been faithfully adapted from the well-received novel.
Following the paths of the three main characters (Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, and Ed Tom Bell) set in motion by events related to a drug deal gone bad near the Mexican-American border in southwest Texas in Terrell County in 1980.
Llewelyn Moss is a welder and Vietnam War veteran who stumbles across a drug-related gun battle which has left everyone dead except a single badly wounded Mexican. Moss finds a truck full of heroin and a bag with $2.4 million in cash. He takes the money, but leaves the Mexican alive, which ignites a hunt for Moss.
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell investigates the drug crime while trying to protect Moss and his young wife with the aid of other law enforcement officers. The sheriff is haunted by his actions in World War II, for which he received the Bronze Star Medal. Now in his late 50s, Bell has spent most of his life attempting to make up for the incident when he was a 21-year-old soldier. He makes it his resolution to solve the case and save Moss.
Complicating things is the arrival of Anton Chigurh, a violent physcopath hired to recover the money. Chigurh uses a called a cattlegun to kill many of his victims and destroy several cylinder key locks to open doors. In one of his final murders he gives a long speech about the fate to his victim. Wells, a rival hitman and ex-partner of Chigurh, is also on the trail of the money.