THE WEIGHT

JANUARY 20

SHOWTIME 2PM & 7PM

Film Details

English | USA/GERMANY 2026 | 115 minutes | Rated R

Directed by: Padraic McKinley
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe, Julia Jones, Avy Berry

Film Description

In this gritty Depression-era thriller, when labourer Murphy (Ethan Hawke) fights against his eviction, he is separated from his young daughter and thrown into a work camp. But the corrupt warden (Russell Crowe) offers him the risky proposition of an early release if he will help smuggle gold stolen from mines being closed along the Oregon Trail. Murphy faces lethal terrain and untrustworthy companions in a race against time to reunite with his daughter before she becomes a ward of the state forever.

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