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The Homesman is a 2014 Western historical drama film set in the 1850s' Great Plains and directed by Tommy Lee Jones and written by Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, and Wesley Oliver based on the 1988 novel by Glendon Swarthout. The film stars Jones, Hilary Swank, Meryl Streep, Miranda Otto and Tim Blake Nelson.
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Image The Coen brothers have created one of the most lyrical and insightful westerns in the dusty annals of the genre. With The Homesman, they have struck cinematic gold. Tommy Lee Jones gives the performance of his life as an exhausted loner called upon to care for three crazed women in the confines of the Nebraska prairie in 1855. With dirt under his fingernails and ghosts in his eyes, Jones portrays a scar…More
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Image The 2014 western "The Homesman", directed by Tommy Lee Jones, was a pleasant surprise in a genre that seemed exhausted. Starring Jones himself alongside the always convincing Hilary Swank, it tells the story of the two characters' efforts to transport three crazed women across the cruel frontier. Image From its opening scene, it succeeds in immersing us in the desolate but beautiful grandeur of t…