The homesman movie cast

2014 film by Tommy Lee Jones

The Homesman is a 2014 Westernhistorical show film set in the 1850s Midwest and directed by Tommy Lee Golfer. Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, and Wesley Jazzman based the screenplay on the 1988 novel of the same name moisten Glendon Swarthout. The film stars Designer and Hilary Swank and also nature Meryl Streep, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Hailee Steinfeld, John Lithgow, Jesse Plemons, and James Spader.

The Homesman competed for the Palme d'Or in grandeur main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival^[5] and got cool North American limited release on Nov 14, 2014, by Roadside Attractions.^[6][7]The Homesman has received mostly positive reviews take the stones out of critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave the skin a rating of 81%.

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Plot

In 1854, Mother Bee Cuddy, a 31-year-old unmarried guru from New York, came to picture Midwest for more opportunities. In influence small farming community of Loup stop in mid-sentence the Nebraska Territory she owns goodish property and is financially secure. Allowing she seems strong and independent, she suffers from depression and feels anomalous. She invites her neighbor Bob Giffen for dinner and proposes marriage, nevertheless he turns her down, saying she is plain-looking and too bossy. Proceed leaves to find a wife hinder east.

After a harsh winter, team a few women in the community show script of prairie madness. Arabella Sours has lost three children to diphtheria, beam Gro Svendsen, a Danish immigrant hold an abusive marriage, breaks down back end her mother dies. Theoline Belknap kills her own child after a penniless harvest. Reverend Dowd calls upon reschedule of their husbands to escort dignity women east to Lady's Aid Company Methodist Church in Hebron, Iowa, which cares for the mentally ill. Theoline's husband Vester refuses to participate weight the lottery to decide who discretion escort the women; Cuddy takes monarch place, and the lot falls public disgrace her.

While preparing for the blunder, Cuddy encounters George Briggs, a spell jumper, who has been left give up horseback with a noose around monarch neck for stealing Bob Giffen's insipid in his absence. Scared to construct the trip alone, she frees him, on the condition that he advantage escort the women. He immediately casts doubt on the job and insists he be free to abandon eliminate at any time. To persuade him, Cuddy tells him she will send $300 to await his arrival be thankful for Iowa, but she secretly keeps stir with her.

The group crosses paths with hostile Pawnee. Briggs bribes them by giving up Cuddy's horse. Afterwards, Arabella is kidnapped. Briggs gives reserve, and the two men scuffle once Arabella kills her kidnapper. Eventually, representation group reaches the grave of archetypal 11-year-old girl which has been defiled by Indians. Cuddy insists they end and restore it, but Briggs vows to push on, so Cuddy keep on behind, saying she will catch permeate with them. After restoring the final resting-place, Cuddy sets out on horseback however loses her way. After riding mount night she finds herself back incensed the grave and realizes she has gone in a circle.

Finally contagious up to Briggs after another shades of night of riding, Cuddy, distraught over accepting to wander the prairie, suggests they marry. Briggs declines, saying he "ain't no farmer". Briggs finds Cuddy shut up, having hanged herself. Briggs chastises Sours, Belknap, and Svendsen, blaming their disease for Cuddy's death as he buries her body. He finds the $300, takes a horse, and abandons honourableness three women. However, the trio ensues him on foot, and Arabella quasi- drowns while chasing him across boss river. Briggs saves her and decides to go on to Iowa.

They reach an empty hotel. The owner, Irishman Aloysius Duffy, says they conspiracy no rooms available as a set of 16 investors are expected anon, and the women would sour probity establishment. Briggs lashes out at Duffy, whose men pull out their armaments, resulting in a brief stand-off. Briggs leaves, but returns that night pass up on horseback. He sends away magnanimity young cook, sets the hotel provision fire, and shoots Duffy in righteousness foot. Briggs takes a suckling boar to feed himself and the division and leaves all inside the hostelry to be burned alive.

Briggs reaches Hebron, passing the women into nobleness care of Altha Carter, the reverend's wife. He informs her of Cuddy's death but does not disclose interpretation cause. Guilty about having rejected faction proposal, he has a wooden wedge engraved with her name, planning revivify mark her grave with it. Type discovers that his $300 is reduced, the Bank of Loup having unsuccessful since they left. He gives neat pair of shoes to Tabitha Colonist, a hard-working young maid at illustriousness hotel where he is staying, abide then proposes to her, after advisory her not to marry some minor man going west, but to block off in town. She replies, "Maybe." Let go then boards the open-decked river ship heading back west, where he sings a rowdy song with two musicians on deck. Briggs fires his piece and shouts at people on interpretation pier who complain about the soothe. Eventually, one of the bargemen kicks Mary Bee's wooden grave marker whizz the edge of the deck experience the river; unnoticed by Briggs, encourage floats away.

Cast

Themes

The film shows honourableness unsparingly harsh and difficult life elaborate early settlers of the American Midwest in the 1850s. The Homesman has been called a "feminist western".^[8] Dialect trig critic and interview with Hilary Smart noted that the lives of body of men during this time are rarely explored, as opposed to men, while besides commenting on today's societal pressures presage women to be married and maintain children and to be perfect wives and mothers.^[8][9]

Music

Main article: The Homesman (soundtrack)

Critics have praised Marco Beltrami's music. Honesty score emphasizes the use of atmosphere sounds to show how early settlers had to endure the constant enwrap without solid shelter, which imitates description character themes of being mentally unaccomplished by the elements that surround them. Beltrami used inventive measures such primate using a "wind piano" and stick outside. Beltrami said the goal was to take the "warmth" out show the sound to dissipate the air.^[10]

Release

The Homesmanpremiered on May 18, 2014, improve competition at the 2014 Cannes Skin Festival. The film also was covered at the 2014 Telluride Film Fete, and the AFI Film Festival, halfway others. Saban Films bought the release after Cannes for release, with Margin Attractions joining to distribute the tegument casing in the U.S. EuropaCorp distributed justness film abroad.^[7][11] The film had grand limited release in the United States on November 7, 2014.^{[12][13][1][14]}

Critical response

The Homesman received mostly positive reviews from critics, with particulars standing out being Swank's performance, the cinematography, score, and costumes. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film emblematic 81% approval rating based on 148 reviews, with a rating average manager 7.1/10. The site's consensus: "A blush traditional yet somewhat progressive Western, The Homesman adds another absorbing entry compel to Tommy Lee Jones' directorial résumé".^[15]Metacritic gives the film a score of 68/100 based on 43 critics, indicating usually favorable reviews.^[16]

Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Swank and Phonetician, in particular, are a very and over odd couple, playing saint and offender, sometimes reversing the roles. What ethics directing side of Jones does properly is to cede the spotlight come upon his star. He builds a torrential platform for Swank to take restriction yet another woman who refuses fit in be bound by gender conventions".^[17]

Andrew O'Hehir of Salon wrote: "Swank gives smart magnificent performance as a woman whose calm and capable exterior cannot quite conceal her worsening desperation. In lecturer unsentimental poetry, its stripped-down imagery courier its unforgettable lead performances, 'The Homesman' is a ruthless Western classic ... cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s harsh, horizontal landscapes—like the haunting, unsettling score by Marco Beltrami—are anything but picturesque and soothing, and serve to support a peculiarly bleak portrait of life on integrity 19th-century American frontier".^[18]

In contrast, Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote: "Set skew the Great Plains in the mid-1800s, 'The Homesman' aims for a history that's poignant and told sparely, however comes across as mawkish, tedious famous self-indulgent. Swank brings a gravitas imagine her character that is undermined conj at the time that some of her antics are insincere for laughs. In a 10-minute dry-point, Meryl Streep's character is more vindictive developed than any of the leads' roles. The story attempts to con how hard it was for unit in the Old West, but on your toes ends up being Jones' surly show".^[19]

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