The Homesman
Tommy Lee Jones’ adaptation of the late Glendon Swarthout’s flavorful 1988 novel is both lyrical and shocking, weirdly funny and grimly serious. Fronted by fine and wise performances by Hilary Swank as a self-sufficient unmarried pioneer charged with transporting three insane women back East and by Jones himself as a shiftless claim-jumper obliged to help her, this beautifully crafted film intrigues as a story never told before and ratchets up dramatic interest through a succession of unexpected turns. As he did with the contemporary THREE BURIALS, Jones again looks at life in the American West from an uncustomary angle, this time examining two solitaires who have pursued opportunities in sparsely settled territory in vastly different ways. (Todd McCarthy)
- Tommy Lee Jones - George Briggs
- Hailee Steinfeld - Tabitha Hutchinson
- James Spader - Aloysius Duffy
- Hilary Swank - Mary Bee Cuddy
- Miranda Otto - Theoline Belknapp
- Grace Gummer - Arabella Sours
- Sonja Richter - Gro Svendsen
- Meryl Streep - Altha Carter
- John Lithgow - Reverend Alfred Dowd
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Kieran Fitzgerald
- Wesley Oliver
- Rodrigo Prieto
- Davis Bach
- Roberto Silvi
- Marco Beltrami
- Merideth Boswell
- Lahly Poore-Ericson
- «The Homesman» von Glen Swarthout
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