NOTHING IS EVER BLACK OR WHITE.

After starring in No Country for Old Men (2007), which was based on a Cormac McCarthy novel, Tommy Lee Jones became so interested in the author’s work that he decided to film one of his plays. This HBO production is about as stark as they come – just two actors and one setting. It becomes an opportunity for two great actors to showcase their talent as their characters, a suicidal academic and an ex-convict, are stuck in a battle where Samuel L. Jackson hopes to defeat Jones’s all-engulfing darkness. Intelligent, but ultimately too chilling to really make an impact.

2011-U.S. Made for TV. 91 min. Color. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones. Teleplay, Play: Cormac McCarthy. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson (Black), Tommy Lee Jones (White).

Trivia: Executive-produced by Jones.

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