Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney,
14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid
her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true
grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying
Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not
augment her faith in him. Against his ...
