FILM REVIEW: ‘Let Him Go’ is a keeper
The movie pairing that fans of Diane Lane and Kevin Costner have been waiting for is here, and it s a feast for the eyes. 1:00 pm, Nov. 15, 2020 ×
Kevin Costner as “George Blackledge,” Jeffrey Donovan as Bill Weboy and Diane Lane as “Margaret Blackledge” in director Thomas Bezucha’s LET HIM GO, a Focus Features release. (Kimberly French / Focus Features)
Diane Lane and Kevin Costner have played a middle-aged, married, western U.S. farm couple before.
That was in 2013, when they appeared as Martha and George Kent of Smallville, Kan., in Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel” – a piece of filmmaking so comprehensively bad, on every level of the craft, that it sets off the excellence of their new movie.
A couple s fight to save their young grandson tops the new DVD releases for the week of Feb. 2. Let Him Go : Tragedy strikes early on in writer-director Thomas Bezucha s Western neo-noir, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Larry Watson. Margaret and George Blackledge (Diane Lane and Kevin Costner), a happy couple on a Montana ranch, are devastated by the sudden, accidental death of their grown son, James (Ryan Bruce), father to their newborn grandson, Jimmy. His widow, Lorna (Kayli Carter), remarries a few years later, a ceremony that Margaret and George graciously and awkwardly attend in support of Jimmy.