Meek’s Cutoff

Director Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff is not an action picture or a conventional Western, any more than The Assassination of Jesse James was a typical Jesse James film. Meek’s Cutoff is based on the actual misfortunes of a handful of wagon train settlers who were detoured by their guide, Stephen Meek, through the Oregon High Desert in 1845. As water and food became scarcer, and the confidence in their guidegrew thinner, the emigrants stood against Meek (Bruce Greenwood). The pictu