First Cow
A simple western about the origin of the American Dream.
Overview
In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow—the first, and only, in the territory.
- Budget
- $2,000,000
- Revenue
- $101,068
- Production
- filmscience
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Cast
John Magaro
Cookie
Orion Lee
King-Lu
Toby Jones
Chief Factor
Ewen Bremner
Lloyd
Scott Shepherd
Captain
Gary Farmer
Totillicum
Lily Gladstone
Chief Factor’s Wife
Alia Shawkat
Woman with Dog
Dylan Smith
Trapper Jack
Patrick D. Green
Russian Trapper
René Auberjonois
Man with Raven
Jean-Luc Boucherot
Sailor in Saloon
Jeb Berrier
Cribbage Player
John Keating
Heckler in Saloon
Todd A. Robinson
Fort Trapper
Eric Martin Reid
Fort Trapper
Ted Rooney
Fort Trapper
Phelan Davis
Fort Trapper
Mitchell Saddleback
Chief Factor's Servant
T. Dan Hopkins
Hawaiian Man
Crew
- Director
- Kelly Reichardt
- Writers
- Kelly Reichardt,Jonathan Raymond
- Producers
- Scott Rudin,Eli Bush,Neil Kopp,Anish Savjani
- Cinematography
- Christopher Blauvelt
- Composer
- William Tyler
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SWITCH.
August 13, 2020
'First Cow' may show an origin of capitalism, but unlike the wild west of Wall Street, Reichardt points to an alternate reality where it's not the muscle of capitalism that conquers, but rather the sweet companionship and commitment to fellowship that will, not the greed of self-interest. In Reichardt's world, greed is a modern illness, and it's only when Cookie and King-Lu's solidarity falters that their lives begin to unravel. People will succeed in cooperation, not at the expense of others - …
Manuel São Bento
September 8, 2020
If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog @ https://www.msbreviews.com As you should know by now, I love watching films as blind as possible: no trailers and a minimum amount of information about the plot (or none at all). A24 became such a popular studio that I don’t even need to know anything else about the movie, I’m always in. Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, and Columbia might be the Big Five of film studios, but gradually people are starting to shif…
CinemaSerf
March 28, 2022
This is a gently comedic story of a couple of pioneering Oregon frontiersmen. Cook-cum-baker John Magaro ("Cookie") who falls in with the entrepreneurial "King-Lu" (Orion Lee). The pair quickly realise that there is a decent amount of money to be made by indulging the sweet teeth of their fellow hardy companions - and when they discover that the local headman has had a cow delivered - the only one for miles - a clandestine business that involves purloining the milk from said cow to enhance their…
badelf
June 16, 2022
For sure not a Hollywood film. This film is a beautifully executed character study about friendship.