The three fortuitously ‘cross’ shaped windows opposite the bank are not the invention of the film’s Art Department, they’re the real windows of St James Episcopal Church. This is not a bank but the office of internet company Suddenlink, 1106 North Main Street in Clovis, New Mexico. The ‘Texas Midlands Bank, Archer City’ is the target of their first not-too professional attempt at a hold-up.

The flat, wide landscapes are convincingly Texan but astonishingly the whole film was shot in New Mexico. The ‘West Texas’ setting of Taylor Sheridan’s script, is clearly in the grip of financial recession, its roads littered with foreclosure signs and ‘loan’ billboards – the twin trap in which so many blue-collar workers find themselves.įacing the loss of his family ranch, straight-arrow Toby Howard ( Chris Pine) is driven to enlist the help of his shadier brother Tanner ( Ben Foster) in a plan to rob banks to pay off a reverse mortgage and save the property for his estranged kids.

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