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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.
- $16 million
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.
May 4, 2024 · What is The Homesman About? Roadside Attractions/Saban Films. To comprehend the end of The Homesman, it's important to understand the setup. The underrated movie Western begins in 1854 in...
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Nov 14, 2014 · The journey in Tommy Lee Jones' "The Homesman", based on the 1988 novel by Glendon Swarthout, travels from west to east, from the unmarked Nebraska territory to a town in Iowa. It is a reverse trajectory of the typical Western path, the wildness of the prairies and plains reverting, startlingly, to a tame village perched on the edge of the ...
Parents Need to Know. 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… Videos and Photos.
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank
Nov 15, 2014 · By Bilge Ebiri, a film critic for New York and Vulture. Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman is a halting, uncertain work by design. Set in the bleak, forbidding loneliness of the Nebraska...
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. Nebraska, 1854.
