Annual Top Films Lists

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #126. Gavin O’Connor’s Jane Got a Gun

Published on February 13, 2014

Jane Got a Gun

Director: Gavin O’Connor
Writers: Brian Duffield, Anthony Tambakis
Producer: Chris Coen, Terry Dougas, Aleen Keshishian, Scott LaStaiti, Mary Regency Boies, Natalie Portman, Zack Schiller, Scott Steindorff
U.S. Distributor: Relativity Media and The Weinstein Company
Cast: Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Rodrigo Santoro, Joel Edgerton, Noah Emmerich, Boyd Holbrook

Jane Got a Gun may have lost some feathers (players) along the way and would have broke into our top 25 if a certain female filmmaker had remained on board, but we’re down all the same for this gunslinger revenge flick. Gavin O’Connor’s sixth feature film (Tumbleweeds remains his best work to date) is the ultimate test for the filmmaker who has had in his hands in several genres.

Gist: A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him.

Release Date: An August 29th date has been pegged, but we would not be surprised if a major fest premiere date ultimately shifts this to further down on the autumn schedule.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).