Eugene, Oregon, 1933. The Great Depression is four years old, a widowed veteran has lost his home and his daughter, and a warden offers him a way out: six days on foot through the forest with a pack full of gold. Padraic McKinley's The Weight is a film about desperate people carrying other people's fortunes, and everyone on the trail is there because there was nowhere else to turn.

In this episode, Joshua Johnson, John Dougherty, and Craig Detweiler review McKinley's directorial debut: Ethan Hawke's quiet, physical performance, Russell Crowe's warden, a rope bridge that earns its cliché, and an ending that may pull its punches. Then each host brings a double feature in conversation with it, and Craig opens the show's first Good, True, and Beautiful review with one of his all-time favorites.

How far would you carry someone else's burden to get back to the people you love?

Now Showing: The Weight
(00:58) The Weight: spoiler-free review
(20:03) Spoiler section

Double Feature
(35:58)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2000)
Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)

A Good, True, and Beautiful Review
(52:47)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

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England, 1381. The Black Death has taken half the population, a boy king is tormented by dreams of demons, and the council decides the peasants will pay. Paul Greengrass's The Uprising is bathed in religious language amidst a culture of rage, and everyone in it believes God is on their side.

In the first episode of The Good, The True, and The Cinema, Joshua Johnson, John Dougherty, and Craig Detweiler review Greengrass's deliberately ugly film about the Peasants' Revolt: Andrew Garfield's Ploughman, Jamie Bell's John Ball, and a film that can't decide what it believes about violence. Then each host brings a double feature in conversation with it, and they close with their favorite films of the summer.

When the powerful promise a miracle, where should the rest of us place our faith?

Now Showing: The Uprising
(01:14) The Uprising: spoiler-free review
(17:40) Spoiler section

Double Feature
(37:02) 

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006)
Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)

Summer Watch List
(53:07) 

The Odyssey
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Disclosure Day
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
The End of Oak Street
The Rivals of Amziah King
Obsession
Coyote vs. Acme
The Invite

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This is The Good, The True, and The Cinema, a film podcast in pursuit of the good, the true, and the beautiful. Join Joshua Johnson, cultural critic and host of Shifting Culture, Craig Detweiler, filmmaker, author, and president of Wedgwood Circle, and John Dougherty, writer, educator, and film critic for America Magazine. Together, they review new releases, revisit the classics, and have a lot of fun along the way.

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