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The Weight (2026 film)

Historical drama film by Padraic McKinley

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Weight is a 2026 historical drama film directed by Padraic McKinley in his directorial debut, from a screenplay by Matthew Booi and Shelby Gaines. A co-production of Germany and the United States, it stars Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe, Julia Jones, Austin Amelio, Avi Nash, and Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen.

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The public source identifies “The Weight (2026 film)” as historical drama film by Padraic McKinley. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Weight, film and Historical.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Weight, film and Historical providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Weight (2026 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.