The Homesman

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. 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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Top of the call sheet

• 
  Hilary Swank
  as Mary Bee Cuddy
• 
  Tommy Lee Jones
  as George Briggs
• 
  Grace Gummer
  as Arabella Sours
• 
  Miranda Otto
  as Theoline Belknap
• 
  Sonja Richter
  as Gro Svendsen
• 
  Tim Blake Nelson
  as The Freighter

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