The Weight (2026)
A tale of good and evil.
Director: Padraic McKinley · Writers: Shelby Gaines, Matthew Booi, Leo Scherman, Matthew Chapman
When Samuel is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy offers him a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom.
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Ethan Hawke
Samuel Murphy 
Russell Crowe
Warden Clancy 
Julia Jones
Anna 
Austin Amelio
Rankin 
Avi Nash
Singh 
Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen
Olson 
Sam Hazeldine
Amis 
George Burgess
Letender 
Jeff Hallman
Big Prisoner 
Alec Newman
Taggert 
Avy-Berry Worrall
Penny 
Cameron Brady
The Man User Reviews (1)
I always love "frontier" movies. The thought of how it felt for the pioneers to explore an essentially lawless and unmaped wilderness is at the very least intellectually enticing and makes for a great movie. "The weight" is not quite a frontier movie because it's set in Klamath Falls during the great depression, a much later period, but still drinks from the same fountain by describing a group of convicts carrying a heavy gold cargo through wilderness with the hopes it will grant them freedom. The plot twists are quite predictable and the end very vanilla and exactly what the viewer will expect, but it's an overall fun movie and the visuals make it better.
