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The Homesman

2014 · 122 min

A stark, sorrowful journey across a harsh frontier, marked by quiet desperation and moments of grim violence.

Overview
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.
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • madness
  • survival
  • grief
  • gender
Places
  • wilderness
  • small town
  • road trip
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror3
Humour3
Realism8
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
western, drama
Directed by
Tommy Lee Jones
Written by
Tommy Lee Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, Wesley Oliver
Starring
Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, John Lithgow
Music
Marco Beltrami
Cinematography
Rodrigo Prieto
Runtime
122 min
Country
United States of America, France
Languages
English

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