Gallery: Country folk

Meet Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin). He's a stand-up Vietnam vet, now living a peaceable life in Texas on the cusp of the 1980s. Of course, if he's so peaceable, then how come he's toting that there handgun? OK, good point. Bear with us ... Photograph: Public domain

Now here's Carla Jean Moss (Kelly Macdonald). The way we see it, she ain't got much to do with herself 'cept sit on the couch, watch TV and look after her mom, who's poorly. Still, she's a sweet little thing and could well surprise us ... one day. Photograph: Public domain

This here's where the Mosses live. Don't look much, does it? Dirty bit of ground and sky as far as the eye can see. But there's things that happen in a country like this. Bad things blowing up from Mexico ... Photograph: Public domain

Like this fella. Goes by the name of Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), and if Satan had a funny haircut, well, he'd look a lot like him. Transpires that Llewelyn has got himself in some kind of trouble with Chigurh (we dunno, something about a drug deal and a suitcase full of money). And Chigurh ain't the type to let the matter drop. Photograph: Public domain

So there's Llewelyn, on the run without a friend in the world. Well, 'cept maybe this guy, Carson Wells (Woody Harrelson). One of those big talkers. Smooth operator. Fancies himself as a problem solver, you know the type. The cemeteries are full of them. Photograph: Public domain

So that about wraps it up. We got our runaway and our bad guy and our bag of loot and our sweet little missy in distress, so called. And who's gonna clean up the mess? Why, it's surely another job for Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), the last honest cop in Texas (so called). And he's getting too old for this stuff ... Photograph: Public domain