Adapted from the critically-acclaimed Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men (released in 2007), tells the story of a man named Llewyn Moss, who one day stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and nearly $2,000,000 in cash. When the dealers discover the cash is missing, ruthless hitman Anton Chigurh is hired to track it down and eliminate the person who stole it. To achieve this, Chigurh ruthlessly murders and attacks a number of people -- both innocent and not innocent at all.
At release, No Country for Old Men received overwhelmingly positive reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus, which sums up critics' opinions of the film, says that the film is "Bolstered by powerful lead performances from Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men finds the Coen brothers spinning cinematic gold out of Cormac McCarthy's grim, darkly funny novel." It was also a major success at the Academy Awards and at the box office. At the Academy Awards that year, it won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Sound Editing. At the box office, it made $171.6 million against a budget of only $25 million.
