New Damon Film Tackles Fracking

Do you like apples? The director of Good Will Hunting has made a film about natural gas drilling. How do you like them apples?
The movie appears to have an anti-fracking bent – John “Jim from the Office” Krasinski plays a farmer trying to stop Matt Damon and Frances McDormand from leasing a rural town’s land for extraction.
Here’s the trailer for “The Promised Land,” which was filmed in western Pennsylvania, and is scheduled for release in early 2013:

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