Never Grow Old

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  • Director: Ivan Kavanagh
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  • Producer: Jacquelin Kerrin and Dominic Wright
  • Cast: Emile Hirsch, John Cusack, Deborah Francois
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Synopsis

When a ruthless gang of outlaws terrorise a sleepy frontier town, the local undertaker Patrick (Emile Hirsh) faces a profound moral dilemma. He plays a dangerous game providing for his family as he profits in the wake of the violence sweeping the once peaceful God-fearing community. As the death toll rises and without religion or the law to turn to, will Patrick find a way to defeat the outlaws as they turn their brutal attention on his pregnant wife and children?

 

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Reviews

"Never Grow Old is an unforgiving look at human nature. The film is absolutely riveting. John Cusack has his best performance in years."
"Leave it to an Irish writer/director, Ivan Kavanagh, to masterfully take a classic American film genre back to its roots."
Dwight Brown, National Newspaper Publishers Association

"[Cusack] has his best role in years in Dutch Albert, a quintessential bad guy who figures prominently in Ivan Kavanagh's old-fashioned Western Never Grow Old. Wearing the proverbial black hat and speaking his menacing lines in a husky, near-whisper, Cusack thoroughly galvanizes the proceedings. Emile Hirsch also gives a terrific performance as the film's hero, Patrick Tate, an Irish immigrant who has settled in the Oregon territory with his French wife, Audrey (Deborah Francois), and their two young daughters."

Frank Scheck, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Gruesome and brutally unsettling, Never Grow Old is an extraordinary western made with uncompromising brute force and filled with a slow-burn morality that never babysits the kind of superficial innocence that often leads to a happy Hollywood ending. "
Rex Reed, OBSERVER

Awards

  • 4 Award Nominations
  • 2 Award Wins