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Feb 12, 2011 · A former convict (Samuel L. Jackson) saves a suicidal atheist professor (Tommy Lee Jones) from a train and locks him in an apartment. They debate about God, life, and death in this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's play.
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- Tommy Lee Jones
- 2011-02-12
The Sunset Limited is a play by American writer Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy's second published play, it was first produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago on May 18, 2006, and it traveled to New York City later that same year.
- Cormac McCarthy
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The Sunset Limited is a 2011 American drama television film directed by Tommy Lee Jones, who also stars with Samuel L. Jackson. It was the duo's second collaboration, after the 2000 film Rules of Engagement. The screenplay was written by Cormac McCarthy, based on his 2006 play of the same name.
- Drama
The Sunset Limited's ambition is undercut by arch dialogue and a claustrophobic setting, but Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson's dueling performances bring heft to this battle...
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- Tommy Lee Jones
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- Samuel L. Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones
Subscribe to HBO: http://itsh.bo/10qIqsj Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones star in the HBO Film "The Sunset Limited."
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- HBO
Set in a New York tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men a deeply religious black ex-con (Samuel L. Jackson) who thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor (Tommy Lee Jones) who tried to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, The Sunset Limited.
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Watch a scene from the 2011 TV movie The Sunset Limited, based on the play by Cormac McCarthy. It features Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones as two strangers who meet in a New York apartment and have a philosophical debate.
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