After losing everything in the Great Depression, the woman embarked on a journey through West America, living like a modern nomad living in a car.
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By Chlo Zhao:
Jessica Bruder (book), Chlo Zhao (screen) Star:
Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda Mei | After an economic downturn in a cooperative town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) loads his car and begins moving out of the usual community as a modern traveler. In director Chlo Zhao’s third film, NOMADLAND, protesters Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells are Fern’s mentors and comrades as he explores the vast landscape of Western America.

The modern West is inspired by a real “uninhabited” area along the Texas-Mexico border. While patrolling the border between father and son, Jackson killed a young Mexican immigrant. If …
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By Conor Allyn:
Jake Allyn star, David Barraza (co-writer):
Jake Allyn, Frank Grillo, Jorge A. Jimenez | The modern West is inspired by a real “uninhabited” area along the Texas-Mexico border. While patrolling the border between father and son, Jackson killed a young Mexican immigrant. When Jackson’s father tried to blame him, Jackson fled south on horseback, becoming an “illegal alien” in Mexico. Expelled from the Texas Ranger and the Mexican federales, Jackson traveled all over Mexico seeking forgiveness from the father of the dead just to love the country he had learned to hate.