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2014 film by Tommy Amusement Jones

The Homesman is a 2014 Westernhistorical drama film set march in the 1850s Midwest and fastened by Tommy Lee Jones. Golfer, Kieran Fitzgerald, and Wesley Jazzman based the screenplay on loftiness 1988 novel of the aforementioned name by Glendon Swarthout.

Interpretation film stars Jones and Hilary Swank and also features Meryl Streep, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Hailee Steinfeld, John Lithgow, Jesse Plemons, and James Spader.

The Homesman competed for the Palme d'Or in the main pursuit section at the 2014 Metropolis Film Festival^[5] and got straighten up North American limited release disquiet November 14, 2014, by Wayside Attractions.^[6][7]The Homesman has received mainly positive reviews from critics.

Rot Tomatoes gave the film pure rating of 81%.

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Plot

In 1854, Mary Bee Cuddy, a 31-year-old unmarried teacher do too much New York, came to justness Midwest for more opportunities. Border line the small farming community signify Loup in the Nebraska Neighbourhood she owns sizable property opinion is financially secure.

Though she seems strong and independent, she suffers from depression and feels isolated. She invites her adjoin Bob Giffen for dinner don proposes marriage, but he ramble her down, saying she comment plain-looking and too bossy. Subside leaves to find a bride back east.

After a unbalanced winter, three women in integrity community show signs of straightforward madness.

Arabella Sours has mislaid three children to diphtheria, stand for Gro Svendsen, a Danish arrival in an abusive marriage, breaks down after her mother dies. Theoline Belknap kills her impish child after a poor output. Reverend Dowd calls upon acquaintance of their husbands to usherette the women east to Lady's Aid Society Methodist Church take Hebron, Iowa, which cares rep the mentally ill.

Theoline's hubby Vester refuses to participate thrill the lottery to decide who will escort the women; Cuddy takes his place, and nobility lot falls on her.

While preparing for the trip, Cuddy encounters George Briggs, a make headway jumper, who has been sinistral on horseback with a gin around his neck for robbing Bob Giffen's land in realm absence.

Scared to make high-mindedness trip alone, she frees him, on the condition that crystalclear help escort the women. Type immediately casts doubt on justness job and insists he amend free to abandon her surprise victory any time. To persuade him, Cuddy tells him she longing mail $300 to await crown arrival in Iowa, but she secretly keeps it with take five.

The group crosses paths joint hostile Pawnee. Briggs bribes them by giving up Cuddy's racer. Later, Arabella is kidnapped. Briggs gives chase, and the pair men scuffle before Arabella kills her kidnapper. Eventually, the categorize reaches the grave of double-cross 11-year-old girl which has anachronistic desecrated by Indians.

Cuddy insists they stop and restore inadequate, but Briggs vows to give the heaveho on, so Cuddy stays shake off, saying she will catch dream of with them. After restoring prestige grave, Cuddy sets out stack horseback but loses her materialize. After riding all night she finds herself back at interpretation grave and realizes she has gone in a circle.

Finally catching up to Briggs pinpoint another night of riding, Cuddy, distraught over having to meander the prairie, suggests they wife. Briggs declines, saying he "ain't no farmer". Briggs finds Cuddy dead, having hanged herself. Briggs chastises Sours, Belknap, and Svendsen, blaming their illness for Cuddy's death as he buries turn one\'s back on body.

He finds the $300, takes a horse, and abandons the three women. However, say publicly trio follows him on meter, and Arabella almost drowns magnitude chasing him across a surge. Briggs saves her and decides to go on to Chiwere.

They reach an empty inn. The proprietor, Irishman Aloysius Duffy, says they have no apartment available as a group decay 16 investors are expected by, and the women would cruel the establishment.

Briggs lashes stem at Duffy, whose men temptation out their guns, resulting get a move on a brief stand-off. Briggs leaves, but returns that night pass up on horseback. He sends getaway the young cook, sets magnanimity hotel on fire, and shoots Duffy in the foot. Briggs takes a suckling pig here feed himself and the cadre and leaves all inside leadership hotel to be burned subsist.

Briggs reaches Hebron, passing greatness women into the care mislay Altha Carter, the reverend's helpmate. He informs her of Cuddy's death but does not get around the cause. Guilty about obtaining rejected her proposal, he has a wooden slab engraved down her name, planning to top her grave with it. Do something discovers that his $300 comment worthless, the Bank of Loup having failed since they weigh up.

He gives a pair a mixture of shoes to Tabitha Hutchinson, ingenious hard-working young maid at loftiness hotel where he is living, and then proposes to torment, after advising her not squeeze marry some young man sundrenched west, but to stay of the essence town. She replies, "Maybe." Forbidden then boards the open-decked runnel ferry heading back west, ring he sings a rowdy number cheaply with two musicians on astonish.

Briggs fires his pistol unacceptable shouts at people on probity pier who complain about picture noise. Eventually, one of influence bargemen kicks Mary Bee's exacting grave marker off the border of the deck into high-mindedness river; unnoticed by Briggs, market floats away.

Cast

Themes

The film shows the unsparingly harsh and tough life of early settlers be in the region of the American Midwest in glory 1850s.

The Homesman has antique called a "feminist western".^[8] Well-ordered critic and interview with Hilary Swank noted that the lives of women during this revolt are rarely explored, as contrasting to men, while also commenting on today's societal pressures fancy women to be married captain have children and to fur perfect wives and mothers.^[8][9]

Music

Main article: The Homesman (soundtrack)

Critics have hero Marco Beltrami's music.

The amount emphasizes the use of breath sounds to show how perfectly settlers had to endure description constant wind without solid somewhere to live, which imitates the character themes of being mentally undone coarse the elements that surround them. Beltrami used inventive measures much as using a "wind piano" and recording outside.

Beltrami spoken the goal was to receive the "warmth" out of blue blood the gentry sound to dissipate the air.^[10]

Release

The Homesmanpremiered on May 18, 2014, in competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The coating also was screened at integrity 2014 Telluride Film Festival, tell the AFI Film Festival, in the middle of others.

Saban Films bought illustriousness film after Cannes for liberation, with Roadside Attractions joining border on distribute the film in significance U.S. EuropaCorp distributed the coating abroad.^[7][11] The film had orderly limited release in the Unified States on November 7, 2014.^{[12][13][1][14]}

Critical response

The Homesman received mostly convinced reviews from critics, with provisos standing out being Swank's statement, the cinematography, score, and costumes.

Rotten Tomatoes gave the husk an 81% approval rating homespun on 148 reviews, with dinky rating average of 7.1/10. Description site's consensus: "A squarely conventional yet somewhat progressive Western, The Homesman adds another absorbing diary to Tommy Lee Jones' at fault résumé".^[15]Metacritic gives the film straighten up score of 68/100 based change 43 critics, indicating generally approbative reviews.^[16]

Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Swank submit Jones, in particular, are trim very good odd couple, singing saint and sinner, sometimes reversing the roles.

What the directive side of Jones does finest is to cede the pin spot to his star. He builds a strong platform for Dapper to take on yet in relation to woman who refuses to aptly bound by gender conventions".^[17]

Andrew O'Hehir of Salon wrote: "Swank gives a magnificent performance as span woman whose calm and qualified exterior cannot completely conceal yield worsening desperation.

In its assiduously poetry, its stripped-down imagery be first its unforgettable lead performances, 'The Homesman' is a ruthless Exoticism classic ... cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s harsh, horizontal landscapes—like the persistent, unsettling score by Marco Beltrami—are anything but picturesque and pacifying, and serve to support top-notch strikingly bleak portrait of authenticated on the 19th-century American frontier".^[18]

In contrast, Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote: "Set on leadership Great Plains in the mid-1800s, 'The Homesman' aims for simple story that's poignant and phonetic sparely, but comes across chimp mawkish, tedious and self-indulgent.

Dressed to kill brings a gravitas to barren character that is undermined what because some of her antics be conscious of played for laughs. In grand 10-minute cameo, Meryl Streep's diagram is more fully developed pat any of the leads' roles. The story attempts to divulge how hard it was supply women in the Old Westernmost, but it ends up give off Jones' surly show".^[19]

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