Theatrical trailer for Young Ones.
From writer/director Jake Paltrow comes a futuristic western, told in three chapters, which inventively layers Greek tragedy over an ethereal narrative that's steeped deeply in the values of the American West.
Set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships. The land has withered into something wretched. The dust has settled on a lonely, barren planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth's precious resources scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm Michael Shannon lives on this harsh frontier with his children, Jerome Kodi Smit-McPhee and Mary Elle Fanning. He defends his farm from bandits, works the supply routes, and hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But Mary's boyfriend, Flem Lever (Nicholas Hoult), has grander designs. He wants Ernest's land for himself, and will go to any length to get it.
Young Ones marks only the second feature film Jake Paltrow has directoed. His previous film was The Good Night. He has also directed some episodes of the hit TV Series NYPD Blue.
2 min 14 sec
Views
194,010
Posted On
August 21, 2014
Jake Paltrow
Writer
Jake Paltrow
Studio
Independent
Release
October 10, 2014
Michael Shannon
Nicholas Hoult
Elle Fanning
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Aimee Mullins
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