Promised Land (2012)

Cast

Matt Damon
as Steve Butler
John Krasinski
as Dustin Noble
Lucas Black
as Paul Geary
Frances McDormand
as Sue Thomason

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Genres & Description

Action Drama

6.6 / 10

Corporate salesman Steve Butler (Matt Damon) arrives in a rural town with his sales partner, Sue Thomason (McDormand). With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company's offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (Krasinski) who counters Steve both personally and professionally.

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Comments on this trailer
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alex wilson

People have been smoking cigarettes for years, and it is only relatively recently that the link between smoking tobacco and cancer has been publicly acknowledged. Imagine if we had put some serious impartial research into the dangers of cigarettes in 1912 when American Dr. Isaac Adler made the link between lung cancer and tobacco, many lives would have potentially been saved. - @Thursday, January 17, 2013 11:01 PM

alex wilson

aum0aumgood

green zone is just the bypass needed when being targeted due to being correct and having to hold the position of a native american and those who work for oneself! bernzeppi...r u a U.S. citizen? did you know by definition this is a naturalised person...knot a native north americas human being! "too many people standing their ground...standing the wrong ground"! {john trudell..."crazy horse"} please have a listen and roperly situate oneself! - @Friday, January 11, 2013 3:56 PM

Bernie Zelvis

You forgot green zone - @Friday, January 11, 2013 5:46 AM

aum0aumgood

moi! - @Friday, January 11, 2013 5:44 AM

aum0aumgood

hmmm~~~"hardened gas man" genius goodwill bourne hereafter t.a.b. and what native natural position for whose north american continent?~~~~~~~~~ i could indicate more yet most likely just many of the damned catching up with the truth! - @Friday, January 11, 2013 5:44 AM

Andy GUSsette

It must be something(chinatown) in the Colorado water. Lol?! - @Tuesday, January 8, 2013 3:30 PM

Andy GUSsette

This Trailer is Great Movie. No, #really, wrote on from multiple media arising interests. So I checked it out here, first. And hog wallowed the crazy off comments. Personally, disenchanted easily, but has some draw! - @Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:56 AM

Andy GUSsette

Hard to say 'no'; straight down to earth current vernacular news current issues hoopla agenda. Bound for political awareness and action to remedy. XD. - @Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:33 AM

Andy GUSsette

Freaking Fracing did start in the 1940's when the One world island Pangea Combusted from earth quake and CHANGEd Melting from unknown science; and Movies where evolving from the historical American Musical into the TVpipeline...! - @Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:27 AM

pinkmanYo

whats the opening instrumental song? - @Monday, January 7, 2013 2:34 AM

Michael Hicks

But you would rather see american children die from drinking contaminated water? You make no sense you liberal piece of trash!! - @Sunday, January 6, 2013 7:36 PM

The Grizzly

There is only one place in the world where fracking hurts, and thats because of the unique geological features of it. - @Sunday, January 6, 2013 6:31 PM

Bernie Zelvis

Hmmm... double hmmmm... I'm pretty sure we all see the 'twist' coming, without it there is no point in watching the movie. Dov S 'Greatest film educator in the whole world' Simmons put it this way: "In any movie, you know the outcome in the first 10 minutes, if you don't you ain't watching the movie. Once established it is the film-makers job to make you doubt that outcome" Based on this trailer, I really wanna see it because I want to believe that a hardened gas-man has a heart and can change. - @Sunday, January 6, 2013 9:39 AM

Ostsol

Of Monsters and Men in the soundtrack means instant win! :D Well, not necessarily, but it's cool to hear... - @Sunday, January 6, 2013 4:42 AM

TestMeatDollSteak

So, you liked it? ;) - @Saturday, January 5, 2013 11:01 PM

WildwoodClaire1

True, but in point of fact, the method currently utilized was pioneered in the 1990s. - @Saturday, January 5, 2013 10:41 PM

WildwoodClaire1

This was one of the most ponderous pieces of agitprop I have ever had the misfortune to endure. Recently, I've seen two movies that were over three hours long and combined they felt shorter than this dismal dog turd. Imagine the most boring, interminable sermon you have ever witnessed and you'll have a good idea what this film felt like. And the plot "twist" is a classic example of telegraphing the pass. Only audience members with the IQ of plankton won't see it coming. - @Saturday, January 5, 2013 10:40 PM

Michael Hicks

You work for them, that's why. You will burn in hell no matter if you want to deny you are destroying the earth and hurting people or not. God can read your mind and subconscious, you cannot hide your atrocities from him. - @Saturday, January 5, 2013 7:49 PM

Bill Payne

fracking started in the 1940s - @Saturday, January 5, 2013 6:45 PM

Bill Payne

no it don't - @Saturday, January 5, 2013 6:43 PM

Bill Payne

fracking hurts nothing - @Saturday, January 5, 2013 6:41 PM

Andy GUSsette

Cute. RIP :: 'That's Not Bad.' Legacy DL Messy Harry For Life.. - @Saturday, January 5, 2013 3:04 AM

rymmx

The song is Of monsters and men O: - @Tuesday, January 1, 2013 11:09 PM

Paul Ricca

The guy from the office really works for the same company as Matt Damien. Also fracking has never been linked to any environmental harm. If you don't like fracking you are a racist because you don't want to see poor rural black people get out of poverty. - @Tuesday, January 1, 2013 2:11 PM

Andy GUSsette

RIP Flying J - @Tuesday, January 1, 2013 5:01 AM

Andy GUSsette

This is Great Down to Earth, Current Events Movie Making in Motion...! Better Than Jack E.:Reader, Hands Down. Don't Forget to Close the Door on Your Way Permanently Out! I hope you don't hurt yourself however so in that finalization on your side of that process. That you had major problems with and needed to be assisted along; You weren't the only Major Dumbass, as it is a Society Plaguing Disease! - @Monday, December 31, 2012 4:26 PM

Andy GUSsette

Really? Compromising everyones records and classifieds ever...?! Huh. This is the absolute worst bad. Sorry Camdy. NOT. - @Friday, December 28, 2012 5:39 PM

Andy GUSsette

FRUCK OFF BRETT..Yes.please.more.stalkers.andUSERS.ruiningMyLifeWhoDidntTjhinkTheyRequiredOneOfThoseTHEYneverGot.?!.. - @Friday, December 28, 2012 5:33 PM

Andy GUSsette

It must be something in the YUMMY co-water-L.. - @Friday, December 28, 2012 4:36 PM

Andy GUSsette

OMJ. It is Said So Good it Might Award Contend.. - @Friday, December 28, 2012 12:25 PM

Andy GUSsette

I Watched Acid Rain Affects - @Friday, December 28, 2012 11:50 AM

Andy GUSsette

I am still Alive. - @Friday, December 28, 2012 7:29 AM

Andy GUSsette

^ That Is the Question, Larry. - @Friday, December 28, 2012 4:20 AM

Andy GUSsette

.:Frick and Frack: the Comedic Ice Skating Dou of the 40's. Or ForF...?!? Chicago has SulfurIC H20 Too. - @Friday, December 28, 2012 4:16 AM

Kæðr

King and Lionheart by Of Monsters and Men. - @Thursday, December 27, 2012 5:54 PM

Alan Womack

Interesteing that all of these comments about a trailer, not the actual movie, which hasn't been released yet, are by so many experts who already seem to have the movie figured out and what it represents. I think I'll reserve my judgement of it until I've actually SEEN the movie. - @Wednesday, December 26, 2012 5:39 PM

Andy GUSsette

Oo.. I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE A CQQL VERN DOCUMENTARY HOOPLA ABOUT ALOT OF ILLUSTRIOUS WATER ON FIRE.! - @Tuesday, December 25, 2012 5:59 PM

Kingmac246

Reminds me of There Will be Blood. - @Monday, December 24, 2012 9:02 PM

Steve Napoleon

lets buy our oil from muslims who want to kill us. forget some hard working oilmen in fields in north dekota. this movie will just play the old dead tired eco bad guys vs good guys. just sleazy eco worship crap. - @Sunday, December 23, 2012 10:29 PM

Steve Napoleon

what stats are there on fracking. i bet enviro nuts make up stats about land getting destroyed. they take like one situation and make issue of it. i live near a river and it destroys our land all the time mainly from nature. - @Sunday, December 23, 2012 10:27 PM

Michael Hicks

... and klls some ...I meant to say - @Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:41 PM

Michael Hicks

Yeah, what a dumb movie, I actually live in the marcellus shale area and if they showed what really happens to people in fracking areas, people would flip out. 5 year old kids hair falling out from drinking their own well water. Frackers are deauchbags and evry time a well blows up and kids some frackers I dance with joy in my living room. Frucking frackhed motherfruckers. - @Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:40 PM

Cheyemos

I hate when I watch a trailer with 2 of my favorite actors in it and there is no top comment. Thumbs up if you agree. - @Thursday, December 20, 2012 2:26 AM

Mr. Teezy

so this is the factually inaccurate movie that had to be rewritten so many times just to feign any kind of authenticity. - @Wednesday, December 19, 2012 9:29 AM

ARKAEA33

Just to clarify, are you pro-fracking or anti-fracking? If anti, I'd love to hear your cost/benefit analysis. - @Thursday, December 13, 2012 5:01 PM

ARKAEA33

The response to the Davies letter explictly states, "In summary, we agree with Davies (1) that our 'data showed that contamination had occurred, but the association with hydraulic fractures remains unproven.'" Furthermore, it is not bold whatsoever considering the caveat included. Currently, there is no evidence (zero) to support the notion that drinking water is being negatively impacted. The authors of your study agree that even if it were proven it is "not a health hazard for ingestion." - @Thursday, December 13, 2012 5:00 PM

Antonio Acevedo

I understand that I only listed one study, and I also read the PNAS letters that tried disputing it. However, the authors of the original study replied in detail in the letter below: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov*pmc*articles*PMC3174673* (replace * with / and add world wide web) I think it is a bold statement to say that "no consumed drinking water has been adversely impacted..None". Unless you have personally tested every active well near every drilling site you cannot support that claim. - @Thursday, December 13, 2012 4:18 PM

ARKAEA33

authors* - @Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:44 PM

ARKAEA33

I did as you said and got one study that was very preliminary and disputed by multiple PNAS letters. Even the author of your suggested study concluded that their goal was "to ensure the sustainable future of shale-gas extraction and to improve public confidence in its use." So, pro-fracking positions all around. This, of course, with the fact that no consumed drinking water has been adversely impacted as of now. None. - @Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:43 PM