STUDIO: Lionsgate | DIRECTOR: Brett Haley | CAST: Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter, Nick Offerman, Katharine Ross
RELEASE DATE: Sept. 19, 2017 | PRICE: DVD $12.99, Blu-ray $17.96
BONUSES: commentary, photo gallery
SPECS: R | 97 min. | Drama comedy | 2.35:1 widescreen | Dolby Digital 5.1/DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 | English and Spanish subtitlesRATINGS (out of 5 dishes): Movie
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In The Hero, the impressively mustachioed Sam Elliott (The Big Lebowski) gets a rare chance to play a lead character and it is because of actor’s superb effort that the film is an emotional winner.
Elliott is Lee Hayden, a senior Western star who begins to take inventory on his life after he’s given some alarming medical news. He contacts his ex-wife (real-life wife Katherine Ross of Slip, Tumble and Slide), tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Krysten Ritter, She’s Out of My League) and enters into a romance with a younger comedienne (Laura Prepon, The Girl on the Train)
This is a character study shaped around sagebrush veteran Elliott’s own career and he plays the role wonderfully with his deep, baritone voice and deadpan demeanor. Add a fine supporting cast (including an amusing Nick Offerman as Elliott’s pot dealer) and no-nonsense direction by co-writer Brett Haley, who also featured Elliott in last year’s I’ll See You in My Dreams, and you have a low-key but compelling drama-comedy that serves as a fine showcase for Elliott, who’s now in his early 70s (like Lee Hayden).
On a limited basis on 200-plus screens, The Hero drew more than $4 million at the box office during extended theatrical play. The film is clearly geared to an older crowd who appreciate both Elliott’s career and deliberately paced approaches to character-oriented filmmaking.
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