The News of The World

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Movie: The News Of The World

Director: Paul Greengrass

Language: English

Year: 2021

Cast: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel

Jefferson Kyle Kid (Hanks), a war veteran from Texas in year 1870 shortly after civil war. His current job is of a news reader for which he travels from one town to the next. On one of those journeys he meets a little girl who was being taken to authorities after the clan who raised was killed. She speaks Kiowa and Jeff takes the responsibility to unite her with her long lost blood relatives.

Next starts the unusual road trip with many highs and lows. There is no need to tell how good Hanks in this. It is Helena Zengel's raw performance sets the chemistry between the two right and Heartwarming.

And the movie is based on a book by Pauletta Jiles of the same.