The Newton Boys

1998

English

6.1

♡ 16

64%

43%

Action

bank robber

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Richard Linklater Director

Ethan Hawke as Jess Newton

Skeet Ulrich as Joe Newton

Lew Temple as Waiter

Matthew McConaughey as Willis Newton

The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the eldest, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become bank robbers. Soon, they gain notoriety and, five years later, execute the greatest train robbery in American history.