Bona Fide Productions
Echo Lake Entertainment
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Nebraska
Life's not about winning or losing. It's about how you get there in the end.
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
- Original title
- Nebraska
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $12,000,000
- Revenue
- $27,700,000
tmdb39513728
Feb 4, 2015 · via TMDB
**Payne Relief** The black and white photography is a nice touch. It gives a kind of Karsh look to the weathered faces of the aging, reflective, yet still yearning cast of characters, and suits the rapidly fading memories of a bygone era in recent American history. The acting was pretty good. Bruce Dern gives an effortless performance as a cranky old coot with one attention-seeking foot in the spotlight and the other half-buried in the shadows of utter dementia. The interpersonal conflicts among family and community, past and present are presented in a simple, linear uncomplicated way. The story seems to want to explore the sad truths of a regressive, bankrupt nation and the ridiculous dreams and delusions people cling to. Life is limited and unfinished. Like the heads carved out of Mount Rushmore. Like the forlorn characters wandering on and off the screen. For even after a lifetime of honest hard work aligned with various fixed Christian principles, a restless, quiet desperation lingers. Lies and illusions are necessary to prevent a lonely, inconsolable reality from setting in. And while Alexander Payne manages to keeps things relatively upbeat to prevent dragging us down into a pit of futile despair, he also fails to fully develop and realize the themes he puts forward. Every time Payne rustles up a movie (Sideways, The Descendants) he gets high praise, and this time he almost deserves it. He's a fairly astute cinematician who wants to make meaningful pictures without getting in too deep. Specifically, road movies on half a tank. Thankfully, he doesn't tread into murky Bergman territory, or puff his stuff up with Goddard-like self-importance, but he doesn't do himself much justice by avoiding or brushing off the potential worth and urgency of the matters he introduces. His concepts are cut short. While I'm watching Nebraska, I can't help but wonder how adept filmmakers like Kieslowski or Cassavettes would have treated and serviced the material. What's almost more disappointing than getting old, losing a presence of mind and attempting to reconcile broken memories, is not being able to fully grasp, much less handle and nurture, your own brainchild.
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Bruce Dern
Woody Grant
Will Forte
David Grant
June Squibb
Kate Grant
Bob Odenkirk
Ross Grant
Stacy Keach
Ed Pegram
Mary Louise Wilson
Aunt Martha
Rance Howard
Uncle Ray
Tim Driscoll
Bart
Devin Ratray
Cole
Angela McEwan
Peg Nagy
Missy Doty
Noel
Franklin Dennis Jones
Uncle Cecil
Tari Segal
"B" Camera Operator
Phedon Papamichael
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Wendy Chuck
Costume Design
Gary Archer
Prosthetics
Erik Rondell
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Danny Epper
Stunts
Jim Palmer
Stunts
Tim Sitarz
Stunts
Alexander Payne
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Kevin Tent
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Neil Tabatznik
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Albert Berger
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Ron Yerxa
Producer
Alicia Stevenson
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Dawn Fintor
Foley
Mark Orton
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José Antonio García
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Lawson Deming
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