Depression, madness and sympathy in 19thcentury nebraska make for a confident, insightful film. Graham phillips also stars alongside jacqueline toboni, shawn hatosy, ritchie coster, jamie mcshane, and irene bedard. Tommy lee jones, as a director, homes in on the surreal aspects of the story with beautiful sensitivity and strangeness the homesman is an. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the homesman near. Three women have lost their minds in the homesman, but honestly, everyone you meet in the film is slightly crazy, the homesman most of all. Mary bee cuddy is young pioneer woman living alone on the prairies of nebraska. What does he learn from the many women he encounters throughout the story. Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independentminded mary bee cuddy, who in turn employs lowlife drifter george briggs to assist her. 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 independentminded mary bee cuddy swank. Fancy watching the homesman on your tv, phone, or tablet. Horsemen is a 2009 american psychological thriller film directed by jonas akerlund, written by david callaham, produced by michael bay, and starring dennis quaid and zhang ziyi. The rough lot handed to women in the old west remains a footnote in the.
Melanie laurent at an event for the homesman 2014 tommy lee jones and rodrigo prieto in the. Tommy lee jones in competition western stars hilary swank, john lithgow, james spader, hailee steinfeld and meryl streep. A brief synopsis and the ending will be revealed for the movie the homesman. She employs a feisty lowlife drifter, george biggs jones, to join her. Where i went from liking the film to loving it might be the point where audiences head for the doors. The premise of a story is a combination of character and plot. In the homesman, why did mary bee hang herself screenprism. Parts of the homesman are a slog to sit through, but the movie ends. Mar 06, 1988 i loves me a strong female protagonist, so when i saw hilary swanks strong performance as mary bee cuddy in the movie the homesman i knew i had to read the source material for the movie. The homesman stars hilary swank and tommy lee jones the.
In the homesman 2014, mary bee hilary swank was the antithesis of a regular woman in 1850. When three women living on the edge of the american frontier are. Mary bee mccuddy, a plain but hardy spinster, volunteered to be their homesman. The homesman was released in 2014 on friday, november 14, 2014 in limited movie theaters. Parts of the homesman are a slog to sit through, but the movie ends on a note of absurd comedy that also breaks your heart, suggesting that some people, no matter the circumstances, are incapable of change. The movies fascination comes from the way jones reclaims the. The homesman certainly wins a few points for trying a different type of western. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the homesman. Full length of the homesman in best look by clicking the download link. Hilary swank, tommy lee jones shine in the homesman the. She is designated by members of her church to take back east three women who have lost their minds.
Nov 14, 2014 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 independentminded mary bee cuddy swank. When three women living on the edge of the american frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the. Instead of focusing on the macho cowboys weve seen perfectly represented by clint eastwood and john ford, in this film we get the females point of view. In the film, hilary swank plays mary bee cuddy, a resourceful landowner and respected member of the community who gets along fine on her own but would really like to have a husband. Find out where to watch, buy, and rent the homesman online on moviefone. It may take time to absorb the sorrow of the homesman, to appreciate the odd rhythms and jarring surprises of its plot and to grasp its unsettling ideas. I dont understand the ending of the movie and was wondering if anyone else can shed some light on the rest of the movie after tommy lee jones drops off the three women. While the homesman looks as traditional as westerns come, with the spirit of john ford breathed through every frame, the film s plot, about the brutal and desperate lot of women in frontier life.
Nov, 2014 in the homesman, a most unromantic american west hilary swank and tommy lee jones play two very different people taking a dangerous trip across the arid plains in a beautifully photographed film. Mary bee cuddy, 31, lives a solitary existence in a godfearing midwestern town. The homesman aims for a story thats poignant and told sparely. We all know tommy lee jones is a great actor but hes also a really fine filmmaker, i thought that after his first film, the three burials of melquiades. Read the the homesman movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. There were 10 other movies released on the same date, including foxcatcher, dumb and dumber to and rosewater. Parts of the homesman are a slog to sit through, but the movie ends on a note of absurd comedy that also breaks your heart, suggesting that. Manuskriptet er skrevet af jones selv, sammen med kieran fitzgerald og wesley oliver, efter en roman med samme navn af glendon swarthout fra 1988. The homesman is a 2014 historical drama set in the 1850s midwest, directed by tommy lee. Melanie laurent at an event for the homesman 2014 tommy lee jones and. Tommy lee jones directs and stars in a deliberately crooked oater. The premise as written on imdb doesnt seem selfaware that the film is really about tommy lee jones. She is tasked to take on the dangerous responsibility of delivering three mentally unstable women to iowa.
Play full the homesman in hd format with movie plot a claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to escort three insane women from nebraska to iowa. Urmareste filmul the homesman 2014 online subtitrat gratis. When i read that the late, great novelist glendon swarthouts the homesman was being made into a movie i got excited, but wondered if hollywood would somehow soften this tough, realistic story about the struggles many women faced in the western frontier in the 1800s. The movie was a little disappointing in that marys workmate, briggs, is played by tommy lee jones, so you have a man in his late sixties playing a man who is just a. Its a perfect ending to a movie that isnt perfect, but easily one of years best. Its a film worth seeing before the crowd of oscar contenders sweeps it.
The film is a movie adaption of the novel of the same name written by glendon swarthout. Women film critics circle, best movie about women, nominated. Nineteenthcentury nebraska is a grim place in actordirectorcowriter. In the homesman, jones plays a claimjumping saddle tramp and hilary. Hovedkarakterene spilles af jones, hilary swank, william fichtner, david dencik, sonja richter og meryl streep.
A latefilm plot point takes the film into a different direction and the heretofore story of marginalised women is itself marginalised. But, the first and last times she speaks in the film, shes proposing to a man who turns her down. She could plow, she could shoot, and she wasnt afraid to take on duties that other men shied away from. 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, independentminded mary bee. However, the homesman does kind of answer lifes problems with the value of sheer vitality and gutsiness. Nov 20, 2014 second, the homesman, the tremendous new film jones has both directed and costars in, would typically be classed as a western.
Nov 10, 2014 mary bee cuddy is young pioneer woman living alone on the prairies of nebraska. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Parts of the homesman are a slog to sit through, but the movie ends on a note of absurd comedy that also breaks your heart, suggesting that some people, no. In the homesman he returns to the western genre, although it is very different. In place of a plot, it has a series of discrete setbacks and encounters, including ripe comic cameos from. Tracking down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the tommy jonesdirected movie via subscription can be difficult, so.
It has to have a double track line in order to work. With tommy lee jones, hilary swank, grace gummer, miranda otto. When a young rancher crosses paths with a lakota girl from a nearby reservation, her mysterious disappearance sparks a. The west, as seen in the homesman, is an unforgiving place, with flashes of stark and nightmarish beauty. In exchange for helping george briggs tommy lee jones, a claim jumper, mary bee cuddy hilary swank recruits him to help her escort three insane women from nebraska to iowa. Everything you need to know about the homesman movie 2014. There are no greedy land barons and no gunslingers drawin at high noon. Tommy lee jones, as a director, homes in on the surreal aspects of the story with beautiful sensitivity and strangeness the homesman is an extremely strange film, highlighting the monotony of the landscape in which figures are either dwarfed by the vastness of it or tower above the flat horizon. The homesman hilary swank and tommy lee jones go west with volatile cargo. How does george briggs change over the course of the movie. Tommy lee jones also stars in his second film as a director a fullbodied quasifeminist. However, every man she meets lets her know how ugly and bossy she is. Complete summary of glendon swarthouts the homesman. The homesman stars hilary swank and tommy lee jones.
December 19, 2014 a homesman is someone tasked to bring people back to their homes. In this film, the people that needed safe transport are three mentally disturbed women. Twitter tommy lee jones in competition western stars hilary swank, john lithgow, james spader, hailee. It follows aidan breslin dennis quaid a bitter and emotionallydistracted detective who has grown apart from his two sons after the death of his devoted wife. Sometimes the risks pay off, sometimes they dont, but the feeling of risk infuses the film with chaos, humor, violence, beauty. Once their journey gets underway, the homesman becomes a road movie with no road.
The homesman er en amerikansk drama film fra 2014 instrueret af tommy lee jones. Spoilers a question about the ending of the homesman 2014. May 18, 2014 the homesman an absorbing, melancholy look at the hard lot of women in the old west. The homesman 2014 stream and watch online moviefone. Depression, madness and sympathy in 19thcentury nebraska make for a confident, insightful film, writes peter bradshaw. Spoilers a question about the ending of the homesman. The homesman gets a new trailer, looks like a compelling. If you like the homesman you are looking for atmospheric, bleak and tense movies about with revenge, old west, human nature, native american, mental illness, partners and obsessive quest themes of drama and western genre shot in usa or france. The homesman feels like stumbling upon an old photograph. They scream, thrash, and moan, and one cuts herself with a needle. It may take time to absorb the sorrow of the homesman, to appreciate the odd rhythms and jarring surprises of its plot and to grasp its. In his best directorial effort yet, nearly a decade after the terrific the.
In fact, all of the women in this movie fall into two reductive categories. Quality of article can be improved by including in the plot section, a one sentence summary of the plot the point of the pointsdetails in the article itself now. The splendid, haunting final shot shows a boatload of rowdy male revellers drifting. Storytelling tips from the homesman 2014 slap happy larry. Parents need to know that the homesman is a western based on a novel by glendon swarthout with disturbing material, mostly related to three frontier women who go insane.
The movie was a little disappointing in that marys workmate, briggs, is played by tommy lee jones, so you have a man in his late sixties playing a man who is. How is the violence related to the behavior of the mentally ill characters. If only things had started out on more solid ground and headed toward some sort of resolution. The homesman is a film directed by tommy lee jones with hilary swank, tommy lee jones, grace gummer, miranda otto, year. After three local women are driven insane by the intolerable life on the prairie, an. A spinster pioneer hilary swank and a brokendown claim jumper tommy lee jones journey east to bring three madwomen back to civilization. We must dance the dance of life, however upset we may be. Thus, that key visual motif in the movie that comes from that final scene. Tommy lee jones cowrites, directs and stars in this elegant western, dealing with the genres familiar geographical and thematic terrain, but refreshingly from a.
The homesman is a dark, complex story of gender issues and changing conventions on the frontier, and in an era that sees this genre fading, jones has made a western winner. A homesman must be found to escort a handful of them back east to a sanitarium. Depression, madness and sympathy in 19thcentury nebraska make for a confident. So reader doesnt have to go through paragraphs of content to figure out by reading one sentence preferably stated in the beginning of plot section and then state the specifics. The homesman 2014 film online gratis subtitrat in romana. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by tommy lee jones, the homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s american west. Saban films bought the film after cannes for release, with roadside attractions. Nov 20, 2014 the homesman may be oldfashioned in its bones, but its not a film to be watched and then tidily packed away.
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