The Homesman( 2014)

TV-MAWesternDrama

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When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.

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Hilary Swank
Mary Bee Cuddy
Tommy Lee Jones
George Briggs
Grace Gummer
Arabella Sours
Miranda Otto
Theoline Belknap
Sonja Richter
Gro Svendsen
Tim Blake Nelson
The Freighter
James Spader
Aloysius Duffy
John Lithgow
Reverend Alfred Dowd
Evan Jones
Bob Giffen
Barry Corbin
Buster Shaver
Hailee Steinfeld
Tabitha Hutchinson
Meryl Streep
Altha Carter
William Fichtner
Vester Belknap
David Dencik
Thor Svendsen
Jesse Plemons
Garn Sours
Jo Harvey Allen
Mrs. Polhemus
Caroline Lagerfelt
Netti Svendsen
Karen Jones
Mrs. Linens
Brian Kennedy
Barkeep Fitzpatrick
Rick Irwin
Dealer
Richard Andrew Jones
Carmichael
Autumn Shields
Loney Belknap (uncredited)
Martin Palmer
Vigilante #2
Jerry Vahn Knight
Vigilante #3
Adrian Doerfler
Vigilante #4
Lela Rose Allen
Belknap Daughter #1
Sachie Capitani
Belknap Daughter #2
Austin Leonard Jones
Banjo Player
Kaelynn Wright
Arabella Sibling
Jesi Mandagaran
Paulina

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Sun Mar 06 2016

Three crazy women for five weeks is a lot more than I bargained for. The Homesman is directed by Tommy Lee Jones, who also co-adapts the screenplay from Glendon Swarthout's novel with Kieran Fitzgerald and Wesley A. Oliver. It stars Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto and Sonja Richter. Music is by Marco Beltrami and cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto. Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported East across the country to Iowa. When the men of the town refuse to stand up and be counted, single, pious and independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy (Swank),...