When his widowed mother marries a rancher, a soft-spoken medical student courts the favor of the man’s brutal brother, while she drinks herself to death.

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When his widowed mother marries a rancher, a soft-spoken medical student studies the man’s brutal brother, who torments her into drink; but when the brute abruptly takes him under his wing and offers to braid him a rawhide rope, he cuts hide from an anthrax-killed cow and hands it over, knowing the man braids barehanded.

Film: The Power of the Dog · Writer(s): Jane Campion · Director: Jane Campion · Year: 2021