The Weight (2026)

What earned the score

• Race as Crew Conflict

  Singh is mixed heritage, light enough to pass as white, but considers himself Black; he and another inmate clash over a racially charged disagreement. The film makes racial identity an explicit source of division within the crew.

• Assimilation School as Oppression

  Anna recalls being sent to a school for Native American children where they were trained as servants for white families, under the slogan “Kill the Indian, save the man.” The story frames the school’s assimilation project as institutional racial oppression.

Details

When Samuel is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy offers him a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom.

Starring

Ethan HawkeRussell CroweJulia JonesAustin AmelioAvi Nash

Director

Padraic McKinley

Writer

Shelby GainesMatthew BooiLeo SchermanMatthew Chapman

Genre

DramaThriller

Release Date

Sep 16, 2026

Parents Guide

• Sex None

  An attempted rape is implied offscreen, it is interrupted.

• Violence Moderate

  A man gets into a brief fistfight with multiple people at once.

  A man is punched in the face a few times, his face is bloodied.

  A man is shot in the leg, not graphic.

  A man falls and hits his head on a rock, no blood.

  A person's back bruises and wounds are shown briefly as the result of being hit by shotgun pellets from a long distance.

  A brief gunfight in the woods, no blood.

  A person is secretly suffocated to death. Intense but not graphic.

  A brutal fistfight with some blood.

  A person is strangled and finally beaten with a stone to death. Some blood.

  An attempted rape is implied offscreen, it is interrupted.

• Profanity Moderate

  20+ F-words.

  Based on subtitles there are 16 f-words in the film, none sexual.

• Drugs Mild

  Some drinking.

• Frightening Scenes Moderate

  The entire film has a tense, high stakes atmosphere.

  The main character's forced separation from his young daughter is emotionally intense and sets the stakes for the rest of the film early on.

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