A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
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Tom Hanks
Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
Helena Zengel
Johanna Leonberger
Michael Angelo Covino
Almay
Ray McKinnon
Simon Boudlin
Mare Winningham
Doris Boudlin
Elizabeth Marvel
Mrs. Gannett
Fred Hechinger
John Calley
Bill Camp
Mr. Branholme
Thomas Francis Murphy
Mr. Farley
Gabriel Ebert
Benjamin Farley
Director
Paul Greengrass
Screenplay
Paul Greengrass
Tagline
"Find where you belong."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$38,000,000
Revenue
$12,700,000
Production
Playtone, Pretty Pictures, Universal Pictures, Perfect World Pictures
garethmb
December 24, 2020
Tom Hanks and Director Paul Greengrass have combined to create a truly moving and memorable western which is one of the best films of 2020. Hanks stars as Captain Kidd; a former Confederate Captain making his way in occupied Texas in the post-Civil-War era. Kidd travels from town to town reading various newspaper stories of interest to gathered locals who are too busy or unable to read the news...
251Family
January 20, 2021
One of the MOST boring attempts at making a Western by a Top shelf actor to date.. Hollywood really needs to come to grips with fact they NO longer have what it takes to make these kind of films...and havnt for a few years now... Now continue on with the worlds dieing films, or Zombies, or female assassins, or better yet the ANTIFA genre of destroying neighborhoods and hating this country... T...
Peter McGinn
May 12, 2021
This doesn’t happen very often, but I actually read their book this movie was based on. I enjoy both. There were a couple of changes I noticed, but I wasn’t offended by them. With one it seemed they had Captain Kidd escape a jam with a speech rather than an explosion, and it worked for me. This is a quirky western and, as such, often ridiculed by western movie fans. It isn’t a classic in my boo...
badelf
May 14, 2026
Paul Greengrass's News of the World is a handsomely mounted Western that looks and sounds like it has something to say, but ultimately settles for surfaces. Tom Hanks stars as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a Civil War veteran who travels through post-Reconstruction Texas reading newspapers aloud to scattered townspeople. When he encounters Johanna (Helena Zengel), a 10-year-old girl taken and raise...
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