Despite becoming one of the defining American films of the 2000s, the Coen Brothers’ Oscar-winning neo-Western No Country for Old Men also sparked a major legal battle involving one of its biggest stars. Years after the film swept the Academy Awards, lead Tommy Lee Jones sued Paramount Pictures over millions in allegedly unpaid compensation for the movie’s success. It’s a strangely ironic little footnote to a modern classic already obsessed with the true cost of greed.


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