Butcher's Crossing

Butcher's Crossing (2023) — watch online on iFILM, a western drama directed by Gabe Polsky and starring Nicolas Cage and Fred Hechinger. Will Andrews drops out of Harvard and heads to 1870s Colorado, certain that the wilderness holds something no lecture hall ever could. He's got money, no skills, and a plan to fund a buffalo hunting expedition.

The hunter is Miller. Cage plays him as a man of very few words who knows the location of a valley no one else has found — thousands of animals, one route in, and no guarantee of a route out. Hechinger's Will pays for everything and slowly understands that bankrolling a journey doesn't mean you control where it takes you.

The screenplay adapts John Williams' 1960 novel, a quiet landmark of American literary fiction largely overlooked until a recent rediscovery. The tagline is a verdict: "Nature judges like a god all men that come to her." Stream Butcher's Crossing (2023) on iFILM.