In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
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Scott Cooper (screenplay), Donald E. Stewart (manuscript)
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HOSTILES opens with a statement by D.H. Lawrence on how hostile the west was – and how the heat of the west can never be melted. Scott Cooper’s (BLACK MASS) film attempts to prove otherwise in his brooding western, interspersed with action sequences that are enough to jolt any audience from thought.
The setting is 1892. The film opens with a tense and well executed sequence of the massacre of the Quaid family by Indians, the only survivor being the widow (Rosamund Pike). Director Cooper makes sure the audience feels for her, and for her hatred towards the Indians.
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