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Nov 14, 2014 · Turned into a film in 1972, directed by Stanley Kramer, it takes the age-old themes of the Western (man vs. nature, man vs. the landscape, man vs. himself) and pours it into the service of a modern coming-of-age drama. "The Homesman," like "Bless the Beasts" questions the "norm".
May 4, 2024 · Lead performances by Swank and Jones shine in this underrated Western, exploring themes of isolation and mental illness. The film's bleak ending highlights the unforgiving nature of the frontier...
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Themes. Score. Release. Critical response. Accolades. References. External links. The Homesman is a 2014 Western historical drama film set in the 1850s Midwest and directed by Tommy Lee Jones. Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, and Wesley Oliver based the screenplay on the 1988 novel of the same name by Glendon Swarthout.
Feb 7, 2024 · The point in the movie when Mary Bee proposes to George and he turns her down also echoes this theme, since that is when the viewers learn that she has been constantly rejected by men over the years. While most of The Homesman's ending does sadly showcase how women were portrayed in that time period, it also provides a bit of hope.
Nov 13, 2014 · With moments of excitement, revelation and stark humor scattered among harsh visual and emotional textures, it’s an erratic, idiosyncratic adventure, based on a groundbreaking historical novel by Glendon Swarthout (who wrote a half-dozen other novels previously turned into movies, including Where the Boys Are, They Came to Cordura, and The Shoot...
May 18, 2014 · Film. Features. May 18, 2014 5:48am PT. 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....
May 18, 2014 · With Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto. 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.
