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Nov 13, 2014 · Set on the Great Plains in the mid-1800s, The Homesman aims for a story that's poignant and told sparely, but comes across as mawkish, tedious and self-indulgent. A dull Western with bizarre ...
Nov 14, 2014 · Rated: 6/10 • Dec 4, 2020. A frontier farm woman (Hilary Swank) saves the life of a claim-jumper (Tommy Lee Jones) and persuades him to help her escort three insane women to a safe haven in Iowa.
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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….
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Dec 5, 2014 · "The Homesman" is no such Western. Starring and directed by Tommy Lee Jones -- who also co-wrote the screenplay, based on the 1988 novel by Glendon Swarthout -- its version of the American ...
The Homesman is a dark, complex story of gender issues and changing conventions on the frontier, and in an era that sees this genre fading, Jones has made a Western winner.
Start your free trial to watch The Homesman and other popular TV shows and movies including new releases, classics, Hulu Originals, and more. It’s all on Hulu. A female farmer and a shiftless claim-jumper transport three women driven mad by frontier life on a treacherous cross-country odyssey.
Feb 17, 2015 · Utterly depressing, no depth. This tale has an interesting premise and the previews caught my attention but the story goes from bad to worse with no real meaning. It certainly gives an idea of how horrible life could be for some women on the frontier but there are few redeeming qualities.
