Release Date
November 14, 2014 (Limited)
DVD Release Date
February 17, 2015 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Tommy Lee Jones
Writer
Tommy Lee Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, Wesley A. Oliver, Glendon Swarthout
Cast
Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Hailee Steinfeld, John Lithgow, James Spader, Meryl Streep
Studio
Running Time
122 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for violence, sexual content, some disturbing behavior and nudity
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven to the brink, the task of saving them from their surroundings 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 feisty low-life drifter, George Biggs (Tommy Lee Jones), to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
Hilary Swank plays a plain woman no one wants to sleep with and Tommy Lee Jones also plays himself in The Homesman, a different kind of western that is surprisingly effective until it sort of peters out toward the end.
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