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Nov 14, 2014 · The journey in Tommy Lee Jones' "The Homesman", based on the 1988 novel by Glendon Swarthout, travels from west to east, from the unmarked Nebraska territory to a town in Iowa.
May 4, 2024 · The film's bleak ending highlights the unforgiving nature of the frontier, resonating with modern discussions on mental health. Co-written, directed by, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman...
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Nov 14, 2014 · Set in a flat, unforgiving stretch of the American frontier in the decade before the Civil War, “The Homesman” is both a captivating western and a meticulous, devastating feminist critique of ...
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Nov 15, 2014 · By Bilge Ebiri, a film critic for New York and Vulture. Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman is a halting, uncertain work by design. Set in the bleak, forbidding loneliness of the Nebraska territory...
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Dec 1, 2023 · This section of the film reveals much about Briggs’s character and serves as a commentary on the nature of civilization itself. RELATED: Ultimately, Briggs reaches the church in Iowa, where he leaves the women in the care of Altha Carter, the reverend’s wife.
Such is the case in the sophomore film, The Homesman, from writer/director Tommy Lee Jones; adapted from a Glendon Swarthout novel of the same name, The Homesman depicts the unrelenting harshness of the Great Plains in the 1850s, especially those facing the women of the era as three wives develop Prairie madness and need to be escorted back ...
Sep 12, 2021 · Honestly, all of the main performances in The Homesman, from the leads to the ‘crazy’ women, are done so well that words don’t do them justice. Hilary Swank expertly delivers the most complex character of the bunch.
