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Woody (Bruce Dern, winner of Cannes best actor prize for a nearly wordless performance) is a broke, bitter,recovering alcoholic who barely speaks to his shrewish wife (scene-stealer June Squibb) or grown sons. After falling under the delusion that he’s won a mail-order sweepstakes, he embarks on a cross-country journey, his youngest son David (Will Forte) playing Sancho to his Don Quixote, and making discoveries about his father he never could expect. Telluride favorite Alexander Payne (The Descendants, TFF 2001) explores cruelty, frustration and greed in this Middle American landscape, tempering it with thorough and obvious love. Phedon Papamichael’s bleakly beautiful black-and-white vistas and a superb cast of supporting performers (Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk and beautifully picked-and-managed nonprofessionals) make Nebraska Payne’s toughest,most tender and complex work yet.Think Ozu on the modern American prairie. –LG (U.S., 2013, 110m)
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