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In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.


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.

Hilary Swank
Mary Bee Cuddy

Tommy Lee Jones
George Briggs

Grace Gummer
Arabella Sours

Miranda Otto
Theoline Belknap

Sonja Richter
Gro Svendsen

Tim Blake Nelson
The Freighter

James Spader
Aloysius Duffy

John Lithgow
Reverend Alfred Dowd

Evan Jones
Bob Giffen

Barry Corbin
Buster Shaver
The Homesman is a western, drama film released in 2014 exploring themes of dancing, based on novel or book, native american, revenge, wild west, driven insane. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones, it stars Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Gummer. 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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