News of the World (2020)
News of the World (2020) is an American Western film directed and co-written by Paul Greengrass. Based on Paulette Jiles’ 2016 novel of the same name, the story follows Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a former Confederate officer. Kidd earns a modest living by traveling around Texas and reading newspaper stories to locals for a ten-cent fee. While journeying from Wichita Falls, he stumbles upon an overturned wagon on the road, with its driver, a freed black man, lynched. He also discovers a young white girl named Cicada, who speaks Kiowa and reveals herself to be Johanna Leonberger. Through her papers, Kidd learns that six years ago, she was kidnapped by the Kiowa and raised as one of their own. The Union Army found Johanna during an encounter with the Kiowa tribe and were returning her to her living aunt and uncle through the help of the freedman.
As a Union Army patrol passes by, they order Kidd to escort the girl to Union officials at an outpost up the road. With no other options, Kidd agrees. However, upon reaching the town, he is told that the outpost’s representative from the Bureau of Indian Affairs will be absent for three months. Originally intending to leave Johanna with Simon and Doris Boudlin, friends in the town, Kidd changes his plans when Johanna attempts to escape with a group of traveling Native Americans during a storm. Realizing he must take full responsibility for her well-being, Kidd decides to bring her back to her family in Castroville, a journey of approximately 400 miles. As they continue their travels, Kidd stops at an inn run by Ella Gannett, an old acquaintance who speaks Kiowa. There, he learns devastating news – Johanna’s adoptive Native American family has also been killed, making her “an orphan twice-over.”
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Cast:  Tom HanksCaptain Kidd  Helena ZengelJohanna  Ray McKinnonSimon Boudlin  Mare WinninghamDoris Boudlin  Elizabeth MarvelMrs. Gannett  Fred HechingerJohn Calley  Bill CampMr. Branholme  Thomas MurphyMr. Farley  Gabriel EbertBenjamin Farley |
Michael Angelo CovinoNews of the World (2020) is an American Western film directed and co-written by Paul Greengrass. Based on Paulette Jiles’ 2016 novel of the same name, the story follows Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a former Confederate officer. Kidd earns a modest living by traveling around Texas and reading newspaper stories to locals for a ten-cent fee. While journeying from Wichita Falls, he stumbles upon an overturned wagon on the road, with its driver, a freed black man, lynched. He also discovers a young white girl named Cicada, who speaks Kiowa and reveals herself to be Johanna Leonberger. Through her papers, Kidd learns that six years ago, she was kidnapped by the Kiowa and raised as one of their own. The Union Army found Johanna during an encounter with the Kiowa tribe and were returning her to her living aunt and uncle through the help of the freedman.
As a Union Army patrol passes by, they order Kidd to escort the girl to Union officials at an outpost up the road. With no other options, Kidd agrees. However, upon reaching the town, he is told that the outpost’s representative from the Bureau of Indian Affairs will be absent for three months. Originally intending to leave Johanna with Simon and Doris Boudlin, friends in the town, Kidd changes his plans when Johanna attempts to escape with a group of traveling Native Americans during a storm. Realizing he must take full responsibility for her well-being, Kidd decides to bring her back to her family in Castroville, a journey of approximately 400 miles. As they continue their travels, Kidd stops at an inn run by Ella Gannett, an old acquaintance who speaks Kiowa. There, he learns devastating news – Johanna’s adoptive Native American family has also been killed, making her “an orphan twice-over.”
