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For much of this year, the pandemic has cruelly kept grandparents away from their grandchildren. Well, Let Him Go is set in the early Sixties and has nothing to do with contagion, yet it addresses just that separation issue.
The difference is that Covid-19 is not at the mercy of Kevin Costner with a gun. Which is a shame, really.
Costner plays George Blackledge, retired Montana sheriff and man of few words, who early in the film finds his only son, James, lying dead after being thrown from a horse on the family farm.
We have already ascertained that George s wife Margaret (Diane Lane) doesn t have much time for her meek daughter-in-law Lorna, James s wife. But she is devoted to her newborn grandson, Jimmy.