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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 lo… More Initial release: 2014 (USA) Director: Tommy Lee Jones Language: English Screenplay: Wesley A. Oliver, Miles Hood Swarthout, Kieran Fitzgerald Genres: Drama, Western The Homesman is a 2014 American western drama film directed by Tommy Lee Jones and co-written with Kieran Fitzgerald and Wesley Oliver, based on a novel of same name by Glendon Swarthout. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, William Fichtner and Meryl Streep. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on November 14, 2014 and will premiere in the UK at the Cambridge Film Festival.Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) is a single, middle-aged woman in a small desert community in Nebraska. Despite significant financial prospects and sizeable land ownership, she is continually rejected by potential husbands for being ugly. Nevertheless, Cuddy is an active member of the community and is well respected by the men. When three young women - Arabella Sours, Theoline Belknapp and Gro Svendsen - begin to show signs of insanity, Reverend Dowd (John Lithgow) calls upon one of their husbands to escort the women to Iowa. Unsatisfied with any of the men's potential, Cuddy volunteers for the task alone and Dowd reluctantly agrees. After loading the women into a wagon, Cuddy sets out for Iowa, and before she leaves she encounters George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones), a claim jumper, who has been lynched for using another man's land as his own. Snivelling and begging to be helped, Briggs appeals to Cuddy for help. She frees him in return for his help escorting the women. but he immediately casts doubt on the job and tells her that he considers himself free to leave at any time. In spite of this, however, he remains with her as they make the journey. Briggs' experience comes in handy when fending off hostile Indians and when one of the women wanders off and is taken in by a cowboy. However, when they discover a desecrated grave of an 11-year old girl, Cuddy wants to stop and restore the grave, whilst Briggs vows to push on. Cuddy agrees to catch up with him, and after restoring the grave sets out on horseback. Riding all night, she eventually wakes and discovers that her horse has returned her to the grave. Finally catching up to Briggs, Cuddy tells him that they make a great team and suggests that they marry. Briggs, like all the previous men, rejects Cuddy on the grounds of her looks, but when a naked Cuddy propositions him later that night, he agrees and the two sleep together. The next morning, Briggs is devastated to learn that Cuddy has hung herself from depression. He buries her body and lashes out at Sours, Belknapp and Svendsen for driving her to her death. He takes a horse and leaves the three women behind to their own devices, but when the trio follow him on foot, almost drowning in the river crossing, he returns and pledges to care for them until Iowa. Briggs seeks food and shelter at a hotel belonging to Aloysius Duffy (James Spader), who informs him that they have no reservations for him despite the hotel being completely abandoned. Angry and bitter after all his hardship, Briggs lashes out at Duffy, whose men force him to leave at gunpoint. Briggs seemingly leaves, and then doubles back on horseback, stealing Duffy's roast pig dinner and shooting Duffy in the foot when he comes downstairs. He then burns the hotel to the ground, killing Duffy and his men in the process. Briggs finally reaches Iowa, passing the women into the care of Altha Carter (Meryl Streep). He sombrely informs her of Cuddy's death but does not disclose the exact cause. He then suggests marriage to young Tabitha Hutchinson (Hailee Steinfeld), but decides against it and leaves the young girl be. Instead, he makes a headstone for Cuddy's grave and boards a barge as he departs. He meets a group of musicians and begins taunting the men on the far bank as he drunkenly dances and fires his weapons, and as the barge departs, one of the workers kicks Cuddy's headstone into the river.

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