Let Him Go
for violence.
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| Moral Rating: | not reviewed |
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| Primary Audience: | Adults |
| Genre: | Crime Thriller Drama Adaptation |
| Length: | 1 hr. 54 min. |
| Year of Release: | 2020 |
| USA Release: |
November 6, 2020 (wide release) DVD: February 2, 2021 |
Accidental death of a son which leaves behind a vulnerable widow and infant
Dealing with great grief
Grandparents love for their grandchildren
What is LOVE, for a follower of Christ? Answer
Why does God allow innocent people to suffer? Answer
What about the issue of suffering? Doesn’t this prove that there is no God and that we are on our own? Answer
Does God feel our pain? Answer
ORIGIN OF BAD THINGS—Why are they in our world if a good God created us? Answer
Did God make the world the way it is now? What kind of world would you create? Answer
Protecting one’s family
What is SIN AND WICKEDNESS? Is it just “bad people” that are sinners, or are YOU a sinner? Answer
About the fall of mankind to worldwide depravity
| Featuring |
Kevin Costner … George Blackledge Diane Lane … Margaret Blackledge Lesley Manville … Blanche Weboy Jeffrey Donovan … Bill Weboy Kayli Carter … Lorna Blackledge Booboo Stewart … Peter Dragswolf See all » |
| Director |
Thomas Bezucha |
| Producer |
Mazur / Kaplan Company Thomas Bezucha See all » |
| Distributor |
 Focus Features, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal/Comcast |
“Fight for family”
Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “A retired sheriff and his wife, grieving over the death of their son, set out to find their only grandson. They end up fighting to rescue him from a dangerous off-grid family.”
This film is based on the novel Let Him Goby Larry Watson.
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The first two-thirds of this movie were excellent. It was a thoughtful drama about a good-hearted retired sheriff and his wife in 1950’s Montana who recently lost their only child, a son, to an equestrian accident, leaving their baby grandson as their only heir. When their daughter-in-law gets remarried to an abusive man, and they suddenly disappear, the legitimate question of grandparents” rights is raised, and the paternal grandparents demonstrate their desire to step up and protect their grandson. This leads to an sudden journey to find their grandson and either be assured that he is safe or bring him back home. They ultimately find their daughter-in-law and grandson, and they were 100% justified in their suspicions. Confrontations happen, and then about two-thirds of the way into the movie, a suddenly violent and gratuitous amputation with an ax morphs this movie into a gruesome slasher film (the kind that would give this 50-something nightmares).
I watched it until I couldn’t bear to, then fast forwarded, looking for resolution and the happy ending that I trusted was forthcoming. It wasn’t. The first two-thirds of this movie was so good that I couldn’t reconcile it to what came next, and I was deeply offended that those responsible for the movie took it in such a needlessly gory direction.
My Ratings: Moral rating: Extremely Offensive / Moviemaking quality: 5