Erica Tremblay’s debut feature boasts another remarkable performance from the Killers of the Flower Moon star as a tough outsider on a road trip with her teenage niece
might have dominated awards conversations. But this lean little drama about a Native American aunt on the run with her niece premiered in the same year as Martin Scorsese’s. And the rest is award season history. But with the dust finally settled on the 96th Academy Awards, a niggling question remains. And it’s not whether Gladstone was nominated in the wrong category, but whether she should have earned two nods rather than just one..
Both follow tough, resourceful women as they navigate odds stacked against them and worlds that are quick to judge them. In, Jax is a hustler who has had numerous brushes with the law. When her sister disappears, Jax takes over the parenting duties for her 13-year-old niece Roki . But when child services intervene, placing Roki with her white grandparents, Jax makes an impulsive and fateful decision.
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