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Ethan Hawke is carrying a fortune in stolen gold across a hundred miles of Oregon wilderness in 1930s America and he is also, less metaphorically, carrying this entire film on his back. Both jobs are difficult. He is better at one of them than the other but he gives everything to both. The premise of The Weight is the kind that sounds irresistible in a pitch room. A labour camp inmate gets offered early release in exchange for transporting government gold through the wilderne