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The Homesman
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.
2014 · Directed by Tommy Lee Jones · 122 min · Western · Drama · 14 frames
Crew
- Written by: Tommy Lee Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, Wesley Oliver
- Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto
- Edited by: Roberto Silvi
- Music: Marco Beltrami
- Production design: Merideth Boswell
- Produced by: Luc Besson, Peter Brant, Brian Kennedy
Cast
- Hilary Swank as Mary Bee Cuddy
- Tommy Lee Jones as George Briggs
- Grace Gummer as Arabella Sours
- Miranda Otto as Theoline Belknap
- Sonja Richter as Gro Svendsen
- Tim Blake Nelson as The Freighter
- James Spader as Aloysius Duffy
- John Lithgow as Reverend Alfred Dowd
- Evan Jones as Bob Giffen
- Barry Corbin as Buster Shaver
Production
- Country: United States of America, France
- Language: English
- Studios: The Javelina Film Company, EuropaCorp, Ithaca Pictures
- Budget: $16,000,000
- Box office: $3,442,853
- Themes: dancing, based on novel or book, native american, revenge, wild west, driven insane, abusive marriage, refused services, prison wagon, lost in the desert
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