Fred Hechinger

Butcher’s Crossing had its first-ever public screening at TIFF and was met with a standing ovation for filmmaker Gabe Polsky and stars Nicolas Cage and co-star Fred Hechinger before they took the stage for a Q&A. The film is based on John Williams’ 1960 western novel set in the 1870s and stars Cage as Miller, a buffalo hunter who lures a naïve young man (Fred Hechinger) into an ambitious expedition in the Colorado Rockies that goes horribly wrong.