
The Homesman
3.5
(95)
Western
Drama
2014
122 min
R
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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"Tommy Lee Jones wrote, directed, and stars in this bleak Western drama, also starring Hilary Swank. It's a slow but sometimes graphic story of 3 women that go mad from living the harsh pioneer life and need to be transported across the brutal open plains to Iowa and a Methodist Church that aids women. Great performances from Jones and Swank but it may not be for everyone as it is a harsh and dismal story. 6.5/10"
"Good movie ! Hilary and Tommy make a good team ! Morbid at times . But all in all it good movie . "
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Jackie beauregard
"Dark commentary or nah?"
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Winslow
"Hauntingly brilliant, only watched it once, still sticks with me years later. "
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Heather D