Sunset Limited, The

Aroview: Cormac McCarthy's one-room play is animated by the mesmerizing acting of Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson in this intense two-hander about the confrontation between an evangelical Christian and an intellectual atheist.

Less stageplay than a duel of monologues, this builds a remarkable amount of tension and foreboding through conversation and the screen presence of two great actors, while McCarthy's distinctive dialogue is something else to behold. Produced by HBO.

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