Guardian: Adapted by John Krasinski and Matt Damon from a story by the prolific novelist, journalist and editor Dave Eggers, Promised Land is a soft-centred drama starring Damon as Steve Butler, a smooth-talking salesman out to cheat country folk of the same stock as himself. He's employed by an oil company to persuade a small midwestern town to sell the drilling rights to their land. The dirt-poor, rust-belt town is in terminal decline, but the windfall will involve fracking for shale oil that could result...