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Nebraska, Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) lebt gottesfürchtig und allein in einer kleinen Grenzstadt in den endlosen Weiten des Wilden Westens. Der Kampf gegen die unerbittliche Natur und die Einsamkeit ist für die Frauen der Pioniere hart. Als die drei Farmersfrauen Arabella (Grace Gummer), Theoline (Miranda Otto) und Gro (Sonja Richter) aus unterschiedlichen ...
Nov 1, 2023 · Escorting mentally ill patients from Texas to Illinois. 1. Mary Bee Cuddy: Active during the 1850s and 1860s, Mary stands out not just for her role as a homesman but also for breaking gender norms of the time. Her memorable journey is beautifully captured in the novel and subsequent movie, “The Homesman.”.
Dec 17, 2014 · Hilary Swank is heartbreakingly good in The Homesman, where she plays Mary Bee Cuddy, a plain but forthright frontierswoman imbued with an almost shocking amount of decency.
The Homesman. Three crazed women are transported across the country in a covered wagon by the pious and independent Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs drifter George Briggs to help her. IMDb 6.61 h 57 min2014. R.
Apr 15, 2021 · Midway through Glendon Swarthout’s 1988 novel, The Homesman, Mary Bee Cuddy wakes up and, from her bedroll by the frame wagon, hears the good-for-nothing cull Briggs, the claim-jumper she saved from hanging, shouting, “Whooeee!”. There, by the fire, he is dancing. It astonishes her. Strong drink, she supposed, affected different men ...
George Briggs certainly is a rough man helping Mary Bee Cuddy out, but before her death his actions are, explicitly, only for the money she has promised him. It is the result of her death that interests me, and that, I think, is the key to understanding the end of the film.
Nov 12, 2014 · Starring opposite Tommy Lee Jones, who co-wrote and directed “The Homesman,” Swank plays straight-talking pioneer woman Mary Bee Cuddy, who lives “uncommonly” — alone in the new Nebraska ...
