The Homesman (2014)
Rating: 6.5/10
Duration: 122 min
Director(s): Tommy Lee Jones,
Description:
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.
Cast
- John Lithgow as Reverend Alfred Dowd
- James Spader as Aloysius Duffy
- Grace Gummer as Arabella Sours
- Miranda Otto as Theoline Belknap
- Hailee Steinfeld as Tabitha Hutchinson
- Hilary Swank as Mary Bee Cuddy
- David Dencik as Thor Svendsen
- Jesse Plemons as Garn Sours
- Tim Blake Nelson as The Freighter
- Tommy Lee Jones as George Briggs
- William Fichtner as Vester Belknap
- Evan Jones as Bob Giffen
- Meryl Streep as Altha Carter
- Barry Corbin as Buster Shaver
- Sonja Richter as Gro Svendsen