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Nov 14, 2014 · Women are the center of the action, women drive the action forward, women are not only damsels in distress but heroic figures of grit and courage (sometimes in the same moment). The men are helpless bystanders or ambiguous allies. There is only one villain in the film, and he is a villain because he is callous.
Nov 14, 2014 · 81% Tomatometer 155 Reviews 53% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings A frontier farm woman (Hilary Swank) saves the life of a claim-jumper (Tommy Lee Jones) and persuades him to help her escort three...
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May 18, 2014 · Cannes Film Review: ‘The Homesman’. As in 'The Missing,' Tommy Lee Jones plays support to a strong female character in this sturdy cross-country Western. By Peter Debruge. Apart from the...
Nov 11, 2014 · Posted onNovember 11, 2014by Roger Moore. There’s a hint of the Dust Bowl in Oscar-winner Hilary Swank’s face — a worn, rawboned quality straight out of a Walker Evans photograph. That makes her the perfect Mary Bee Cuddy, the sturdy not-quite-old-maid of Tommy Lee Jones’ film, “The Homesman,” based on the Glendon Swarthout novel.
May 18, 2014 · 99+ Photos. Drama Western. Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her. Director. Tommy Lee Jones. Writers. Tommy Lee Jones. Kieran Fitzgerald. Wesley A. Oliver. Stars.
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The Homesman was first printed in 1988, and is highly worthy of its 2014 rerelease. Swarthout’s prose and plot flow like the swirling Missouri River, deceptively smooth but with dangerous undercurrents. His characters are heart-wrenchingly believable because they are drawn from true-life pioneer experiences. Mary Bee Cuddy is simultaneously ...
Nov 14, 2014 · Dec 9, 2014. Tommy Lee Jones directed and stars in this film about an intense, independent pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) who volunteers to deliver three mentally unstable wives back to a more civilized place. Jones plays the shiftless reprobate who she enlists to help her on the strenuous trek.
