The time is the 1870s, the setting frontier America just after the Civil War, and the taleteller is Mattie Ross, who at 14 years old journeys to Fort Smith, Arkansas determined to extract justice for the death of her father, shot in cold blood. Highlighted by a cast that includes Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges, Academy Award nominee Matt Damon, Academy Award nominee Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper and newcomer Hailiee Steinfeld as one of literature's most stouthearted young heroines, True Grit is written for the screen ad directed by Joel and Etahn Coen and produced by Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joen Coen. The executive prodeucers are Steven Spielberg, Robert Graf, David Ellison, Paul Schwake and Megan Ellison.