An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 27 wins & 158 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
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A desolate comedy-drama about fathers, sons, life's highways and missed off-ramps.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
26 Nov 2013
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"Nebraska," it turns out, isn't as bleak as it first looks.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
27 Nov 2013
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An intimate road movie about one family that also lingers on the landscapes and fabric of an old-time, dying vision of the American Midwest
– Dave Calhoun,
Time Out,
2 Dec 2013
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The deft achievement of this movie is that it has a hardness that doesn't delight in the meanness of mockery as the Coens often do.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
10 Dec 2013
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[Payne has] made an "American Gothic" for 21st-century, post-recession America. Who needs a pitchfork anyway, when you can have an ice cold bottle of Bud?