---
title: 'No Country for Old Men (2007)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Joel Coen'
released: '2007-05-19'
runtime_minutes: 122
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Western'
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'United States'
themes:
  - 'Order and Chaos'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/no-country-for-old-men-2007'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# No Country for Old Men (2007)

2007 · R · 122 min · Drama, Action, Western, Adventure, Crime · United States

Part of: BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century

## Synopsis

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, the film is set in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas, United States. The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance that the Coen brothers had explored in the films Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), and Fargo (1996). It follows three main characters: Llewelyn Moss (Brolin), a Vietnam War veteran and welder who stumbles upon a large sum of money in the desert, Anton Chigurh (Bardem), a hitman who is sent to recover the money, and Ed Tom Bell (Jones), a sheriff investigating the crime. The film also stars Kelly Macdonald as Moss's wife, Carla Jean, and Woody Harrelson as Carson Wells, a bounty hunter seeking Moss and the return of the money.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Joel Coen](https://cinepixo.com/people/joel-coen), [Ethan Coen](https://cinepixo.com/people/ethan-coen)
- **Screenplay:** [Joel Coen](https://cinepixo.com/people/joel-coen), [Ethan Coen](https://cinepixo.com/people/ethan-coen), [Cormac McCarthy](https://cinepixo.com/people/cormac-mccarthy)
- **Producer:** [Joel Coen](https://cinepixo.com/people/joel-coen), [Ethan Coen](https://cinepixo.com/people/ethan-coen), [Scott Rudin](https://cinepixo.com/people/scott-rudin)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Carter Burwell](https://cinepixo.com/people/carter-burwell)
- **Director of Photography:** [Roger Deakins](https://cinepixo.com/people/roger-deakins)
- **Editor:** [Coen brothers](https://cinepixo.com/people/coen-brothers)

## Cast

- [Woody Harrelson](https://cinepixo.com/people/woody-harrelson) as Carson Wells
- [Kelly Macdonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/kelly-macdonald) as Carla Jean Moss
- [Rodger Boyce](https://cinepixo.com/people/rodger-boyce) as El Paso Sheriff
- [Tommy Lee Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/tommy-lee-jones) as Ed Tom Bell
- [Barry Corbin](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-corbin) as Ellis
- [Gene Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-jones) as Gas Station Proprietor
- [Garret Dillahunt](https://cinepixo.com/people/garret-dillahunt) as Wendell
- [Stephen Root](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-root) as Man who hires Wells
- [Rutherford Cravens](https://cinepixo.com/people/rutherford-cravens)
- [Kathy Lamkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathy-lamkin)
- [Thomas Kopache](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-kopache)
- [Caleb Landry Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/caleb-landry-jones) as Boy on Bike
- [Josh Blaylock](https://cinepixo.com/people/josh-blaylock) as Boy on Bike
- [Beth Grant](https://cinepixo.com/people/beth-grant) as Carla Jean's mother
- [Jason Douglas](https://cinepixo.com/people/jason-douglas)

## Themes & motifs

- [Order and Chaos](https://cinepixo.com/topics/order-and-chaos) (theme) — Chigurh's coin is the thesis: a man who believes he is fate's instrument, in a film that keeps handing the last word to accident.

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/no-country-for-old-men-2007
Film facts: Wikidata (Q183081); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.