The Homesman

The Homesman — Plot

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.

• Release date
• May 18, 2014
• Runtime
• 122 min
• Genres
• Western, Drama
• Director
• Tommy Lee Jones

The Homesman — Cast

Hilary Swank Mary Bee Cuddy Tommy Lee Jones George Briggs Grace Gummer Arabella Sours Miranda Otto Theoline Belknap Sonja Richter Gro Svendsen Tim Blake Nelson The Freighter James Spader Aloysius Duffy John Lithgow Reverend Alfred Dowd