MOVIE · 2014
The Homesman
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. 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, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
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The Homesman
ABOUT
Story
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. 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, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
CAST
Featured cast
Hilary SwankMary Bee Cuddy
Tommy Lee JonesGeorge Briggs
Grace GummerArabella Sours
Miranda OttoTheoline Belknap
Sonja RichterGro Svendsen
Tim Blake NelsonThe Freighter
James SpaderAloysius Duffy
John LithgowReverend Alfred DowdMORE TO EXPLORE
