PLOT: In the middle of the Great Depression, a veteran (Ethan Hawke) is separated from his young daughter and sent to a brutal work camp. He’ll commute his sentence if he agrees to smuggle gold through the deadly Oregon wilderness. A rough-and-tumble period action movie, it features Ethan Hawke at his best in a rugged, heroic role, while director Padraic McKinley takes his cues from grounded action fare, with William Friedkin’s Sorcerer seeming like a direct influence. It’s all evocatively shot, with Munich standing in for Oregon, and scored by Latham and Shelby Gaines, who previously scored other Ethan Hawke films, Blaze and The Kid. Imagine Train Dreams if it were an action movie, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what The Weight is like.