6.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama, Thriller, Crime • 2026 • 112 min • Adults (18+)
The Weight (2026)
The Weight (2026)
Overview
Set during the Great Depression, this 1930s crime thriller follows a WWI veteran and widower who accepts a dangerous gold-smuggling job from a corrupt warden to secure his freedom and reunite with his young daughter. The story leans on personal grit, family duty, and sacrifice as the primary moral currency. There are no identity politics, no progressive cultural signaling, and no LGBTQ or religious themes in play. The father-daughter bond drives every decision, and systemic hardship is treated as a backdrop for individual endurance rather than a call for structural critique. That combination of traditional masculine heroism and family-first stakes puts the label at Leans Traditional.
Starring Cast
N/A
Where to watch
Fandango
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Bias Rating
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Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
6.9
Overview
Set during the Great Depression, this 1930s crime thriller follows a WWI veteran and widower who accepts a dangerous gold-smuggling job from a corrupt warden to secure his freedom and reunite with his young daughter. The story leans on personal grit, family duty, and sacrifice as the primary moral currency. There are no identity politics, no progressive cultural signaling, and no LGBTQ or religious themes in play. The father-daughter bond drives every decision, and systemic hardship is treated as a backdrop for individual endurance rather than a call for structural critique. That combination of traditional masculine heroism and family-first stakes puts the label at Leans Traditional.
Starring Cast
N/A
Where to watch
Fandango
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Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: Medium
The Weight follows a battle-scarred World War I veteran navigating the Great Depression by taking on a dangerous gold-smuggling job to protect his daughter, framing personal grit and family duty as the path through systemic collapse.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: Low
The Weight centers on a survival story of desperate men amid economic hardship, framed through traditional casting and a narrative that avoids any focus on identity or diversity themes.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: Medium
The Weight centers on a widower father separated from his young daughter by imprisonment and foster care, framing the parent-child bond as a powerful force worth extreme sacrifice to restore.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Medium
The Weight contains no LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative centers on a father's urgent drive to reunite with his daughter amid themes of survival and desperation in a high-stakes heist environment.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
The Weight contains no transgender characters or themes. Its narrative centers on a prison escape and wilderness survival story featuring an indigenous woman and other crew members in a 1930s setting.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low
The Weight presents an original ensemble of characters in its 1933 Oregon labor camp heist story, with no established figures from prior source material or historical record reimagined under a different gender.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
The Weight is an original screenplay depicting fictional characters during the Great Depression in Oregon. No established figures from prior source material, comics, novels, or documented historical individuals appear in the cast, so no race swaps are present.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low
Not depicted.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.9
6.7
Critic Ratings
N/A
7.0
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