junderscoreb 's review for:

True Grit by Charles Portis
4.0

This was delightful, even though I've seen the Coen brothers movie multiple times (once all the way through with the sound off at a bar at about 1 am on my last night out before the kid was born.) The voice of the main character--a 14-year old girl who is single-mindedly pursuing her father's killer--is the best. She's so self-serious and unintentionally hilarious, and the way everyone reacts to her is very satisfying. Turns out the movie is faithful to the novel almost verbatim.