Rio Cutler (Jake Schur) explains that he killed his father one night when his father drunkenly beat his mother to death. His uncle Grant Cutler (Chris Pratt) hears the gunshot and comes into the house. Furious at his brother’s murder, he attacks Rio. Rio stabs him in the face with a shard of glass and he and his sister Sara (Leila George) escape. She steals a horse and they take shelter in a shack they find; they intend to meet their mother’s friend in Santa Fe.
When they wake, they are greeted by Billy the Kid (Dane DeHaan) and his gang. Rio shows Billy a picture of his mother and Billy reveals that he also killed his father in defense of his mother. When one of the gang goes outside to check on the horses, Sheriff Pat Garrett (Ethan Hawke) and his officers shoot him. A gunfight ensues in which Billy tries to lasso his horse to escape, but Garrett shoots the horse and takes them prisoner. Sara tells Rio not to go outside, because he will be hanged if he reveals he killed their father. Seeing this as a chance to get safely to Santa Fe, Rio runs outside; he and Sara tell Garrett that their mother died and they were separated from their father while they all traveled to Santa Fe. Garrett seems suspicious but takes them along.
They stop at a ranch inhabited by Mexicans where they leave the body of the man they shot. Billy sees his lover and promises to return. While Billy antagonizes Garrett during dinner, Rio slips him some butter and he escapes from his shackles, threatening to kill a deputy. Garrett produces a gun and threatens one of his gang, and the situation is diffused. Later, Garrett tells Rio about the first man he killed and asks him if he has anything he wants to tell him, but Rio says no.
When they get to Santa Fe, the sheriff (Vincent D’Onofrio) insists on taking Billy in addition to Dave, another member of Billy’s gang. Sensing hostility, Garrett commandeers a stagecoach and hastily leaves town. Rio and Sara slip away and find their mother’s friend in a dance hall. They have been set up by Grant, who ambushes them. He tells them their mother was also a whore, and for killing his brother he’s taking Sara as his whore.
He turns Rio out on the street and takes Sara. Rio sees Dave about to be hanged and takes a letter from Billy, which claims Billy knows where his sister is. Rio gets a gun and goes to the jail to visit Billy, but a deputy turns him away. To get into the jail, Rio half-heartedly robs a bank and is shot by another deputy. In jail, Rio and Billy plot to escape. Garrett once again asks Rio if he has anything to tell him, and he again says no.
The Kid is a 2019 American semi-biographical western action film directed by Vincent D’Onofrio, from a screenplay by Andrew Lanham. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Dane DeHaan, Jake Schur, Leila George, Chris Pratt, Adam Baldwin, and D’Onofrio, and centers around Rio Cutler who forms an unlikely alliance with local sheriff Pat Garrett and infamous outlaw Billy the Kid in a mission to rescue his sister Sara from Grant Cutler, the boy’s thuggish uncle and gang leader. The Kid was released in the United States on March 8, 2019, by Lionsgate Films.
The Kid (2019)
Directed by: Vincent D’Onofrio
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Dane DeHaan, Jake Schur, Leila George, Vincent D’Onofrio, Chris Pratt, Adam Baldwin, Keith Jardine, MorningStar Angeline, Jenny Gabrielle, Rachel Singer, Rose Cordova
Screenplay by: Andrew Lanham
Production Design by: Sara K. White
Cinematography by: Matthew J. Lloyd
Costume Design by: Ruby Katilius
Set Decoration by: Edward McLoughlin
Art Direction by: RA Arancio-Parrain
Music by: Latham Gaines, Shelby Gaines
MPAA Rating: R for violence and language.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: March 8, 2019
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