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- Often called a "feminist western", The Homesman is decidedly not feminist and instead incredibly sexist.
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Nov 12, 2014 · The film, which follows Hilary Swank‘s moralistic homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy as she transports three troubled women across the prairie, highlights the hardship of pioneer women in the American...
Nov 13, 2014 · Susan Wloszczyna November 13, 2014. Tweet. She’s a horse woman—and a hoarse woman. Hilary Swank is willingly sacrificing her voice doing back-to-back interviews for the sake of her latest film, “The Homesman,” which opens on Friday. A rare female-driven Western, co-starring and directed by Tommy Lee Jones, earned praise at its premiere ...
Nov 12, 2014 · The film, which follows Hillary Swank’s moralistic homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy as she transports three troubled women across the prairie, highlights the hardship of pioneer women in the American West. “This movie I would not call completely a Western. I think it is more than that. To me it is more of a feminist movie,” Swank said.
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...
- Tommy Lee Jones
May 18, 2014 · 1,247. 300. Play trailer 2:20. 18 Videos. 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.
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- Drama, Western
- Tommy Lee Jones
- 2014-05-18
Nov 25, 2014 · To which part of calling “The Homesman” a “feminist western” would Tommy Lee Jones, its director, co-writer, co-producer and costar, be more likely to object? “It’s not very meaningful,”...
Either that or people were disappointed that The Homesman wasn’t the feminist Western they were expecting—it is a feminist Western, but despite Swank’s strong work and the theme of women mistreated by men, this is still a story about Briggs, and the hardness of the West.
