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The Homesman looks at the toll on the heart and the soul and the psyche in a homestead miles from the nearest neighbor. It is a powerful film of elemental emotions and instincts, filled with eccentric and unusual episodes that straddle the fine line between humor and tragedy.

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May 18, 2014 · Directed by Tommy Lee Jones. 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.

When I read that the late, great novelist Glendon Swarthout's The Homesman was being made into a movie I got excited, but wondered if Hollywood would somehow soften this tough, realistic story about the struggles many women faced in the Western frontier in the 1800s.