Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the western True Grit for Blu-ray release on June 7, in a BD/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack. This new adaptation of the novel by Charles Portis (previously brought to the screen by Henry Hathaway in 1969), was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, although it came out of the Oscar ceremony empty-handed.
Special features include:
- Mattie’s True Grit
- From Bustles to Buckskin: Dressing for the 1880s
- Colts, Winchesters & Remingtons: The Guns of a Post-Civil War Western (BD-exclusive)
- Re-Creating Fort Smith
- The Cast
- Charles Portis: The Greatest Writer You’ve Never Heard Of… (BD-exclusive)
- The Cinematography of True Grit (BD-exclusive)
- Theatrical Trailer (BD-exclusive)
Synopsis
Jeff Bridges stars as Rooster Cogburn, an irascible U.S. Marshal hired by a 14-year-old girl (newcomer Hailee Steinfeld) to bring her father’s killer (Hailee Steinfeld) to justice. Matt Damon is an overzealous Texas Ranger who is also tracking the killer, hoping to capture him and bring him to trial for another murder.
