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Promised Land

Name: Promised Land
Genre: Drama
Released: 2012
Duration: 106 min

2012 · Released · 106 min

Steve Butler (Matt Damon) has caught the eyes of top management at his employer, Global Crosspower Solutions, an energy company that specializes in obtaining natural gas trapped underground through a process known as Hydraulic fracturing. Butler has an excellent track record for quickly and cheaply persuading land owners to sign mineral rights leases that grant drilling rights over to his employer. Butler and his partner Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand) arrive in an economically struggling Pennsylvania farming town whose citizens are proud of having family farms passed from one generation to the next.

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