Within thirty seconds of Stillwater, we find Matt Damon not only digging through tornado debris, but ordering a foot-long coney from Sonic. I guess you could say that makes this the most Oklahoma movie ever made. Sorry, August: Osage County!
Damon is Bill Baker, a laid-off oilfield worker that is typically clad in a short-sleeve western shirt, camouflage hat and wraparound shades. As he drives his truck from Stillwater to Will Rogers Airport—it all looks real to me—we soon learn that his daughter is in a French prison for a crime she, apparently, didn’t commit.
As he travels to France—Marseille, to be accurate—sadly, there is very little fish-out-of-water comedy as he tries to prove her innocence, using purely Oklahoma tactics like not listening to people, walking away angry and blasting country music. Of course, no one wants to help him except for French actress Virginie (French actress Camille Cottin) and her precocious daughter Maya (little French actress Lilou Siauvaud).