Killers of the Flower Moon: Book vs. Movie
Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) adapts David Grann's book about the murders of Osage people in 1920s Oklahoma. Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio play Mollie and Ernest Burkhart, whose marriage is central to the film.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- David Grann
- Year
- 2017
- Pages
- 416Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 9 hr 4 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
David Grann investigates the murders of Osage people whose Oklahoma oil rights make them targets in the 1920s. Following Mollie Burkhart's family and the federal inquiry led by Tom White, he traces how racism, financial exploitation and local corruption obstruct the search for justice. His own archival research extends the inquiry beyond the crimes that reach court.
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Writer
- Eric Roth
- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 3 hr 26 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons
- Genre
- crime, crime drama, crime thriller, detective, drama, epic, thriller, Western
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Returning from war, Ernest Burkhart settles near his uncle in Oklahoma and courts Mollie, an Osage woman whose family receives substantial oil income. As their marriage takes shape, deaths among Mollie's relatives and neighbors become increasingly difficult to dismiss as coincidence. Ernest's dependence on his uncle places him inside a network of schemes aimed at acquiring Osage wealth.
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