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The Homesman is a beautiful film that brings a rarely seen female (and feminist) perspective to the stories of the Old West. [Full review in Spanish] Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12 ...
Nov 14, 2014 · It's a risky film. Sometimes the risks pay off, sometimes they don't, but the feeling of risk infuses the film with chaos, humor, violence, beauty. "The Homesman" doesn't play things safe, and that's a welcome change. Mary Bee Cuddy ( Hilary Swank) is a middle-aged woman, born in upstate New York, who has bought land in the Nebraska territory.
Nov 20, 2014 · Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank star in this frontier western that explores depression, madness and sympathy in 19th-century Nebraska. The Guardian's film critic Peter Bradshaw praises the film's ...
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Nov 14, 2014 · When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones), to join her. Together, they ...
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Parents need to know that The Homesman is a Western (based on a novel by Glendon Swarthout) with disturbing material, mostly related to three frontier women who go insane. They scream, thrash, and moan, and one cuts herself with a needle. One throws a baby away in an outhouse, and other dead babies are also….
Nov 13, 2014 · In fact, all of the women in this movie fall into two reductive categories: strong but plain, and once-attractive and crazy. Men repeatedly tell Cuddy how bossy she, but she doggedly perseveres in ...
