Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited HBO Trailer

Drama is reigning king during this awards season, with The Black Swan, The Social Network, and The King’s Speech earning multiple nods. Well, here is some more (hopefully well crafted) drama for you, this time coming to the small screen.

Premiering February 12th at 9pm on HBO is The Sunset Limited, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson and based upon the Cormac McCarthy play. Talk about your odd couple. McCarthy also wrote the novels The Road and No Country For Old Men (a film adapted by the Cohen brothers, in which Jones also starred). This time around Jones also takes directing duties!

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Here is the official synopsis from HBO:

Based on the play of the same name by Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy, this searing two-character drama mixes humor and pathos while examining the relationship between strangers who are brought together by desperate circumstances. Set in a New York tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men – a deeply religious black ex-con who thwarts the suicide attempts of an asocial white college professor to tried to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, the Sunset Limited. As the one attempts to connect on a rational, spiritual and emotional level, the other remains steadfast in his hard-earned despair. Locked in a philosophical debate, both passionately defend their personal credos and try to convert the other.