News
of the World 2020
- Director: Paul Greengrass
- Based on the novel by Paulette
Jiles
- Cast: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel·
- Why? The book
- Seen: 14 June 2025
Civil
War veteran Captain Kidd (Hanks) travels around reading newspaper articles to
communities in Texas. He encounters a white girl Johanna (Zengel) who has been
been raised by the Kiowa but who has been left alone when her family is
murdered by whites and the tribe banished from their land. She is to be brought
to an aunt and uncle but there is nobody who will do it. Reluctantly he does.
She is frightened and all she wants is to return to the Kiowas.
I liked the book a lot. The film does a decent adaption.
3½ * of 5
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