THE HOMESMAN
THE HOMESMAN
August 24, 2014 2hrs 2mins
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
Won, Best Ensemble Cast
Director
Tommy Lee Jones
Screenwriter
Tommy Lee Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, Wesley A. Oliver
Cast
Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank , Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Jo Harvey Allen, Meryl Streep, Hailee Steinfeld, Karen Jones
Producers
Luc Besson, Peter Brant, Michael Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Kennedy, Larry Madaras, Richard Romero
Executive Producers
Tommy Lee Jones, G. Hughes Abell, Deborah Dobson Bach, Michael Fitzgerald
Synopsis
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 (Hilary Swank). 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 (Tommy Lee Jones), to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women (Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter) head east, where a waiting minister and his wife (Meryl Streep) 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.