The Homesman

2014 · 2h02 · Film

Directed by Tommy Lee Jones

Starring Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, John Lithgow, Evan Jones, Barry Corbin

Ideal when you feel… Sad / low Exhausted

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.

Original language

English

Screenplay

Tommy Lee Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, Wesley Oliver, Glendon Swarthout

Music

Marco Beltrami

Cinematography

Rodrigo Prieto

Cast

Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, John Lithgow, Evan Jones, Barry Corbin, Hailee Steinfeld, Meryl Streep

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