Land is a 2021 drama film directed by Robin Wright in her feature directorial debut, from a screenplay by Jesse Chatham and Erin Dignam. It stars Wright, Demián Bichir and Kim Dickens. The film premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 31, and was released in the United States on February 12, 2021, by Focus Features. It received generally positive reviews from critics.

Plot

After a traumatic experience Edee Holzer (Wright) is in the midst of therapy, revealing to the therapist that she doesn t like to be around people because she doesn t think it s right that they share in her pain. Wanting to escape, she leaves the city she lives in and moves to Wyoming where she purchases a small remote cabin and resolves to live in solitude without any modern conveniences connecting her to the outside world, including telephones or cars.

Initially, she struggles with basic provisions including chopping firewood and fishing. When a black bear enters her cabin, eats her food and destroys much of the rest of her supplies while she hides in her outhouse, she reaches her breaking point. Without a fire for heat or food to eat, she tries to hunt but cannot bring herself to shoot a deer she has in her sights. Overwhelmed, she attempts to take her life by shooting herself with the hunting rifle, stopping short when she remembers her sister Emma (Dickens) pleading not to hurt herself.

During a violent snowstorm, the metal roof of her cabin becomes somewhat dislodged by the wind, making loud noises. She leaves the cabin to attempt repairs and is injured. A local hunter, Miguel (Bichir) and his friend and nurse Alawa (Pledge) rescue her and help her recover from her injuries and malnourishment. While Alawa departs, Miguel remains to look after Edee by preparing her food, replenishing her supply of firewood, and restocking the rest of her cabin.

Edee thanks Miguel for his kindness in helping her, but explains that she came to her cabin to be alone and wants to keep it that way. Miguel understands and offers to help equip her with better survival skills so that she can have the life of solitude that she wants. He shows her how to trap in the winter and hunt in the fall so she can provide herself with food. Over time they develop a friendship as Miguel continues to join her to hunt, harvest crops, and explore her land. Miguel shares that his wife and daughter died in a car accident eight years prior, while Edee simply reveals that she used to have a family. Later while cooking dinner, Miguel remarks that if she doesn t want to talk about her past she ought to consider what she wants her future to be like. She suspects that he searched her history on the internet, though he s not even aware of her last name and explains that s impossible.

Later Miguel asks her to watch his dog while he goes away for a while, ostensibly for work. While he s gone Edee retrieves a collection of old photos revealing she was married with a son, and the father and son she saw fishing earlier on had been an apparition of her family. Months pass and Miguel hasn t returned, so Edee packs her belongings and ventures off of her land for the first time since her arrival to find him. She makes her way into town on foot and eventually finds Alawa working at the local hospital. Alawa takes her to see Miguel, who is bedridden and dying from throat cancer. On his deathbed, he confesses that he was driving the night his wife and daughter were killed and it was because he was intoxicated that the accident happened. Edee responds that her husband Adam and son Drew were killed by a gunman in a concert hall. She thanks him for helping her heal and the life he gave back to her.

Departing with his phone that he gifted to her, she calls her sister Emma for the first time since arriving in Wyoming.

Cast

• Robin Wright as Edee Holzer, a woman living in the wilderness
• Demián Bichir as Miguel Borrás, a local hunter
• Sarah Dawn Pledge as Alawa Crow, a nurse, friend of Miguel
• Kim Dickens as Emma, Edee s sister
• Brad Leland as Colt

Production

In April 2019, it was announced Robin Wright would star in and direct the film, from a screenplay by Jesse Chatham and Erin Dignam. In October 2019, Demián Bichir and Kim Dickens joined the cast of the film, with Focus Features distributing.

Principal photography began in October 2019 in Alberta, Canada for twenty nine days.

Release

The film premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2021. It was theatrically released in the United States on February 12, 2021. It was released on video on demand on March 5, 2021.

Box office

Land grossed $2.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $585,207 in other territories, for a total gross of $3.1 million.

Land opened alongside Judas and the Black Messiah and grossed $899,010 from 1,231 theaters in its opening weekend ($1.1 million over the four-day frame), finishing fifth at the box office. In its second weekend the film dropped 44% to $500,010.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 69% based on 183 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website s critics consensus reads, Land s lovely vistas can t compensate for a hollowness at its center. On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100 based on 32 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B+ on an A+ to F scale, while 73% of filmgoers at PostTrak gave it a positive score and 42% saying they would definitely recommend it.

Year	2021
ReleaseDate	2021-02-12
RuntimeMins	89
RuntimeStr	1h 29min
Plot	A bereaved woman seeks out a new life, off the grid in Wyoming.
Awards	Awards, 4 wins & 2 nominations
Directors	Robin Wright
Writers	Jesse Chatham, Erin Dignam
Stars	Robin Wright, Demián Bichir, Sarah Dawn Pledge
Produced by	Joshua M. Cohen,Steven Farneth,Michael Frislev,Leah Holzer,Lora Kennedy,Chad Oakes,Eddie Rubin,Peter Saraf,John Sloss,Allyn Stewart,Marc Turtletaub,Kim H. Winther,Robin Wright
Music by	Ben Sollee,Time for Three
Cinematography by	Bobby Bukowski
Film Editing by	Anne McCabe,Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Casting By	Jackie Lind
Production Design by	Trevor Smith
Art Direction by	Mark Stope
Set Decoration by	Rob Hepburn
Costume Design by	Kemal Harris
Makeup Department	Emma Andrus,Andrew Clements,Yvonne Cox,Madison Farwell,Gail Kennedy,Linda Nelson,Elizabeth Paradis,Shelley Russell,Amanda Rye,Kristy Smith,Jo-Dee Thomson,Amanda Tozser,David Trainor
Production Management	Joshua M. Cohen,John Kerr,Yvonne Melville,Nick Andrus
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Chris Cinnamon,Steven McMichael,Darcie Parkhurst,Jamie Sarginson,Jerry Skibinsky,Kim H. Winther,Sue Young Kim,Trevor Smith
Art Department	Jeffrey Anthony,Prescott Beresh,Matthew Carswell,Jose Refugio Chaidez Marquez,Andrea Clark,Taner Dambrauskas,Joel Ferguson,Danielle French,Jennifer Jacobsen,Tom Johnson,Johnny Jones,Jürgen Lutze,Brian Macneil,Shanna Orgovan,Danica Peel,Mike Rodrigues,Ty Semaka,Spencer A. Smith,Cindy Swensen,Cody Thompson,Serena Vye,Neil Westlake,Rob White,Michael Willis,David Yepiz,Bendi Zherka,Lesia Bear,Gina MacKay,Terry Shewchuk,Travis Shewchuk,Evan Spence
Sound Department	Paul Hsu,Jiho Kim,Bill Orrico,Michael Playfair,Justan Ross,Nicholas Schenck,Louw Verwoerd,Allan Zaleski,Jeffory Haddad,Oleg Kulchytskyi,Jeffrey Roy,Ja-Ann Wang
Special Effects by	Brian Beaulieu,Rob Gibney,Jason Paradis
Visual Effects by	Phil Carbonaro,Daren Dochterman,Patrick Flanagan,James Fox Taggart,Mark Hubatsek,Brian Jochum,Peter Kuran,Chris MacKenzie,Jo Martin,Arthur Mesa,Alan Munro,Jeremy Nelson,Laurie Newall,Andrew Stutesman,Jon Terada,James LeSage
Stunts	Byron Allen,Peter Bews,Sally Bishop,Carl Lee Mclellan,Leslie McMichael,Steven McMichael,Kyle Thomson,Lindsay Woolsey
Camera and Electrical Department	Terry Arnholtz,Kyle Baldwin,Chris Bang,Kirk Chiswell,Liam Erickson,Terry Graham,Nick Green,Hans Grossmann,Neville Hgyou,Cameron Howell,Alf Kennedy,Cherise Keown,Tom Kolafa,Mike McManus,Kyle Mrazek,Dan Power,Jeremy Richmond,Kyle E. Robb,Rick Schmidt,Clint Silzer,Andrew Sparke,John Spooner,Eric Wilson,Dylan Zack,Mitch Fraser,Darryl Macdonald,Nathan Maier,Nathan Rogers
Casting Department	Tara Bell-Irving,Jana Jacques Lind,Alyson Lockwood,Andrea Ware
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Michelle Carr,Carolyn Devins,Jenna Giacomelli,Tannis Moore,Enjolie Paradis,Susan Montalbetti,Carley Laine Powell,Sarah G. Schmidt,Adejoké Taiwo
Editorial Department	Darcy Arthurs,Jacob Burleson,Kyle Casey,Kyle Casey,Adam Dicterow,Christian G. Farfan,Sam Fischer,Kristina Fithern-Stiele,Kyle Flannery,Joe Gawler,Curt Kuhl,Alex H. Liu,Max Marcellus,Jack McCabe,Andrew Minogue,Michelle Perkowski,Levi Pounds,Jerome Raim,Russ Robertson,Matthew Setlow,Corey Stewart,Kevin Vale
Location Management	Brian Dunne,Brook Kiddell,Daniel Marsh,Alexander McGregor,Neville Ngyou,Grayson Ogle,Mohammed Qazzaz,David Reynolds,Shawn Savard,Kaiden Tajiri,Abigail Webster,Chad Stanley Martin
Music Department	Susan Jacobs,Shari Johanson,Nich Jones,Kenta Yonesaka,Nik Ammar,Mike Reed,David James Rosen,Gregory Sweeney,Ilyse Wolfe Tretter
Script and Continuity Department	Sandi Cameron,Cameron Chapman,Sherra Bridgewater
Transportation Department	Tom Baird,Mel Brown,Mike Fitzgerald,Reva Glass,Stacey Gooch,Doss Griffiths,Heath Hamilton,Ken Knox,Karen Macdonald,Chris Mandel,Rick Martine,Bruce Toy
Additional Crew	Jay Daniel Beechinor,Lori Boyle,Aritee Danabassis,Maddy Eagen,Jacqueline Eckhouse,Andy Elder,Sarah Ellis,Rob Gibbs,Rod Graham,Nini Le Huynh,Tom Ishizuka,Leah Jones,Monique Jones,Elli Jung,Caleigh Kansas,Flo Krisko,Ellen MacDonald,Linda Maclean,Sandeep Motwani,Ashley Mrace,Jennifer Omoth,Thomas Phillips,Brenda Rampp,Ramon Rodriguez,Heather Rutherford,Kim Schweitzer,Dave Stark,Rob Turner,Lindsey Uhl,Vincent Varga,Candace Villett,Rachel Viszmeg,Emma Warren,Ryan Willock,Nicholas Yeo,Maddy Eagen,Mike Groner,Marty Hanenberg,Josh Miller
Genres	Adventure, Drama
Companies	Big Beach Films, Cinetic Media, Nomadic Pictures
Countries	USA, Canada
Languages	English
ContentRating	PG-13
ImDbRating	6.6
ImDbRatingVotes	10559
MetacriticRating	61
Keywords	wyoming,new life,cabin,female protagonist,one word title