First Cow
2019 · Movie · PG-13 · 122 min · ★ 7.1 · 93% critics
In the 1820s Oregon Territory, a quiet traveler with a gift for cooking befriends a newcomer chasing a better life. Together they start selling sweets, but their plan depends on secretly borrowing milk from a powerful landowner’s prized cow, putting their fragile opportunity at risk.
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Details
- Years
- 2019
- Release date
- 2020-03-06
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Critic score
- 93/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (536 votes)
- Box office
- $1,400,000
- Budget
- $2,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a calm, character-driven frontier story about friendship, hustle, and small risks, in the vein of Wendy and Lucy or Meek's Cutoff; Not for you if you need fast action.
Pros: warm friendship focus; gentle humor; immersive frontier mood | Cons: very slow pacing; predictable turns; drags at times
Themes
- immigrant
- based on novel or book
- fur trapping
- oregon, usa
- 19th century
- biscuits
- buddy film
- cow
- western
- cook
- 1820s
Cast & crew
John Magaro
as Cookie
Orion Lee
as King-Lu
Toby Jones
as Chief Factor
Ewen Bremner
as Lloyd
Scott Shepherd
as Captain
Gary Farmer
as Totillicum
Lily Gladstone
as Chief Factor’s Wife
Alia Shawkat
as Woman with Dog
Dylan Smith
as Trapper Jack
- RF
Ryan Findley
as Trapper Dame
Directed by Kelly Reichardt