Old Henry
2021
***½
Director: Potsy Ponciroli
Cast: Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Gavin Lewis, Trace Adkins, Stephen Dorff, Richard Speight Jr., Max Arciniega, Brad Carter
In 1906, a widower and his teenage son run a pig farm in a remote corner of Oklahoma Territory. One day, they take in a wounded stranger with a saddlebag full of cash, who is tailed by a group of dodgy lawmen. Potsy Ponciroli's short and moody but rather conventional Western provides a fictional end to a historical character. The story is set in a small world where the men all seem to know each other by name or face, and the only teenager on screen is reliably annoying. The climactic shootout is brutal but a bit dumb.
