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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 ...
Directed, co-written & starring Tommy Lee Jones – based on the award-winning novel by acclaimed author Glendon Swarthout. Rating. Set in 1854 in the harsh Nebraska frontier, a low-life drifter George Briggs (Oscar-Winner Tommy Lee Jones) is rescued by a pious, independent-minded woman named Mary Bee Cuddy (Oscar-Winner Hilary Swank).
Nov 20, 2014 · Without giving anything away, the film ends not with a bang, not quite with a whimper, but with an odd little drunken revel, a mixed chord of regret and one last trip across the Missouri. “The ...
Mar 14, 2024 · Tommy Lee Jones' The Homesman is a melancholic Western from the filmmaker/star — and it boasts a sprawling cast loaded with prodigious talent as well. No stranger to the director's chair, having ...
Go east, young man. The Homesman is a film with an unimaginably specific and small ideal audience. It is, to begin with, a Western; a Western lover's Western, drunk on the iconography of the genre and steeped in an awareness of the kind of myths told in Western cinema and more than that, the particular language and tenor of those myths.
Nov 22, 2014 · Rating. Some credits roll when you least expect them. Sometimes it’s relieving, like somebody suddenly remembered to flip the switch, and you can finally go home. And sometimes a jarring credit roll leaves you cold, like the script ran out of pages, or the production ran out of money. Rarely do they arrive when you want them to.
