Old buzzard Woody Grant can barely walk down the street of his home in Billings, Mont., without stopping for a drink. So when Woody receives a sweepstakes notice in the mail and insists on making a 750-mile trip to Lincoln, Neb., to collect his prize, it falls to baffled son David to accompany him.

Bruce Dern returns! Long after his New Hollywood heyday, Alexander Payne’s black-and-white comedy-drama brings the character actor back to mainstream attention with a plum lead role, scoring Dern an Academy Award® nomination for Best Actor. A tender father-son two-hander, co-starring Will Forte.