Story Line
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
“Find where you belong.”
Top Cast
Tom Hanks
Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
Helena Zengel
Johanna Leonberger
Michael Angelo Covino
Almay
Ray McKinnon
Simon Boudlin
Mare Winningham
Doris Boudlin
Elizabeth Marvel
Mrs. Gannett
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Rating
6.9/ 10
Release Date
2020-12-25
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
DramaWesternAdventure
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User Reviews (5)
garethmb
No rating•12/24/2020
Tom Hanks and Director Paul Greengrass have combined to create a truly moving and memorable western which is one of the best films of 2020.
Hanks stars as Captain Kidd; a former Confederate Captain making his way in occupied Texas in the post-Civi...
251Family
3/10
•1/20/2021One of the MOST boring attempts at making a Western by a Top shelf actor to date.. Hollywood really needs to come to grips with fact they NO longer have what it takes to make these kind of films...and havnt for a few years now...
Now continue on ...
Peter McGinn
9/10
•5/12/2021This doesn’t happen very often, but I actually read their book this movie was based on. I enjoy both. There were a couple of changes I noticed, but I wasn’t offended by them. With one it seemed they had Captain Kidd escape a jam with a speech rather ...
badelf
6/10
•5/14/2026Paul Greengrass's News of the World is a handsomely mounted Western that looks and sounds like it has something to say, but ultimately settles for surfaces. Tom Hanks stars as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a Civil War veteran who travels through post-...