The Homesman (2014)

Review: The Homesman (2014)

Director: Tommy Lee Jones

Cast: Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter,

Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones
Grace Gummer
Grace Gummer
Miranda Otto
Miranda Otto
Sonja Richter
Sonja Richter

Plot: 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.

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Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Pandemic viewing, Part Three

Social isolation and “working from home” mean a lot of time for movie-watching … and the volume far outstrips my ability to say anything substantive about many of the films I do watch: so here I mostly just acknowledge what […]

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