The Homesman
2014 · Movie · R · 122 min · ★ 6.5 · 75% critics
On the harsh American frontier, a determined woman volunteers to help three women in distress travel east for care. She hires a drifter to join her, and together they face a difficult journey through cold weather, loneliness, and danger across the Nebraska Territories.
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Details
- Years
- 2014
- Release date
- 2014-05-18
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 75/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (872 votes)
About
You may like The Homesman if you want a grim frontier journey with strong performances and a raw sense of hardship; Not for you if you prefer lighter westerns or fast-moving stories, though fans of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada may be interested.
Pros: strong performances; harsh frontier realism; memorable atmosphere | Cons: slow pace; bleak tone; uneven moments
Themes
- dancing
- based on novel or book
- native american
- revenge
- wild west
- driven insane
- abusive marriage
- refused services
- prison wagon
- lost in the desert
- buffalo skin
Cast & crew
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
Directed by Tommy Lee Jones