Movie Menus: "No Country for Old Men"

By: Frances Crouter

Cook up a menu that traverses West Texas and across the Rio Grande, and watch this tightly wound, carefully paced thriller.

Favorite Quotes

Llewelyn Moss: If I don't come back, tell mother I love her.
Carla Jean Moss: Your mother's dead, Llewelyn.
Llewelyn Moss: Well then I'll tell her myself.

Anton Chigurh: Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.

Wendell: We goin' in?
Ed Tom Bell: Gun out and up.
Wendell: [Wendell draws his pistol] What about yours?
Ed Tom Bell: I'm hidin' behind you.

Ed Tom Bell: Now that's aggrevatin'.
Wendell: Sheriff?
Ed Tom Bell: [points to a bottle of milk] Still sweatin'.
Wendell: Whoa, Sheriff! We just missed him! We gotta circulate this!
Ed Tom Bell: Well, okay. What do we circulate? Lookin' for a man who recently drunk milk?

Man who hires Wells: [about Chigurh] Just how dangerous is he?
Carson Wells: Compared to what? The bubonic plague?

Ed Tom Bell: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Anytime you quit hearin' 'sir' and 'ma'am' the end is pretty much in sight.

Tip back your cowboy hat and get ready for some nail-biting suspense: this film has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, including best picture, best director, and best supporting actor.

Shh, the Movie's Starting!

It seemed like a good idea at the time: Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), out hunting, stumbles across a drug deal gone bad. He tracks down the last man standing--who, as it happens, is no longer standing--and takes a satchel full of money. Unfortunately for Llewelyn, an attack of conscience brings him back to the scene of the crime, and right into the sightlines of the bad guys. He is pursued by the baddest of them all: a cold-blooded killer named Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem). Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) reluctantly follows the trail of carnage.

Suggested Eating:

Lucky Cakes (bake a lucky quarter in each). Serve with a bottle of milk--still cold.