Matt Damon tries to save his daughter in the trailer for Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater

Matt Damon stars as “Bill” in director Tom McCarthy’s STILLWATER, a Focus Features release. Credit Jessica Forde / Focus Features

A dramatic thriller directed by Academy Award® winner Tom McCarthy and starring Matt Damon, Stillwater follows an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

Directed by Tom McCarthy, the film stars Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin, and Camille Cottin.

Focus Features will release Stillwater in US cinemas on 30th July 2021.