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
Director
Tommy Lee Jones
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$16,000,000
Revenue
$3,442,853
Production
The Javelina Film Company, EuropaCorp, Ithaca Pictures
John Chard
March 6, 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 d...
Reno
July 14, 2016
> An unusual western road trip drama. A novel based film starred and directed by the 70 years old Tommy Lee Jones. An unusual realistic western drama with a fantastic cast. It sets around the time 1850 and the story of three mentally ill wives who were transported to a safe facility by a man and a woman who hired him in exchange of saving his life. During this both way road trip, what they go t...
CinemaSerf
August 24, 2023
Two strong performances from Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank do much to lift this rather simple, plodding, story but sadly in the end, it seemed to me to be a very thinly spread amalgam of stories that lacked any real substance and was, frankly, quite depressing. Swank is "Mary Bee Cuddy" who is looking after three women who have, for various reasons, found the pioneering life of the wild west be...
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