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The former is written by costars Matt Damon and John Krasinski, working from a story by novelist Dave Eggers; the latter comes to us through the individual performances and the observant directorial eye of Gus Van Sant. Damon plays Steve Butler, a hard-driving salesman for a natural gas company who arrives in the (fictional) town of McKinley, Pa., with his partner, Sue (Frances McDormand). They promise the local farmers untold riches in exchange for leasing their land to the company’s deep-shale drills.
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This movie sounds better than I feared. I am so tired of pedantic Hollywood dramas that try to convert the unwashed masses of America to factory-installed liberalism.