Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Meryl Streep, Tim Blake Nelson, Hilary Swank, Jesse Plemons, David Dencik, John Lithgow, Rick Irwin, Tommy Lee Jones, William Fichtner, Evan Jones, Barry Corbin, Miranda Otto, Grace Gummer, Hailee Steinfeld, James Spader, Caroline Lagerfelt, Sonja Richter, Jo Harvey Allen, Karen Jones, Brian Kennedy, Richard Jones, Autumn Shields
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Reviews
80
CineVue
With The Homesman, Jones has produced an original and cantankerously offbeat western which becomes increasingly beguiling as the road stretches on.
80
The Guardian
Tommy Lee Jones shows some true storytelling grit in this superbly watchable frontier western; he has a muscular and confident command of narrative, driving the plot onward with a real whip-crack, and easily handles the tonal swings between brutal shock, black comedy and sentimentality.
80
This beautifully crafted film intrigues as a story never told before and ratchets up dramatic interest through a succession of unexpected turns.
80
The mood flits between solemn and rascally, and the pacing is measured: this is storytelling at a mosey rather than a trot.
80
Unlike other actor-directors, Jones never seems to indulge excess on the part of his cast. Though the characters are strong, the performances are understated.
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