The Homesman
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.
Western, Drama
The Javelina Film Company, EuropaCorp, Ithaca Pictures
Hilary Swank as Mary Bee Cuddy, Tommy Lee Jones as George Briggs, Grace Gummer as Arabella Sours, Meryl Streep as Altha Carter, Miranda Otto as Theoline Belknapp, Tim Blake Nelson as The Freighter, Hailee Steinfeld as Tabitha Hutchinson, Sonja Richter as Gro Svendsen, David Dencik as Thor Svendsen, John Lithgow as Reverend Dowd, James Spader as Aloysius Duffy, William Fichtner as Vester Belknap, Jesse Plemons as Garn Sours, Jo Harvey Allen as Mrs. Polhemus, Evan Jones as Bob Giffen, Barry Corbin as Buster Shaver, Caroline Lagerfelt as Netti Svendsen, Karen Jones as Mrs. Linens, Brian Kennedy as Barkeep Fitzpatrick, Rick Irwin as Dealer, Richard Jones as Carmichael, Autumn Shields as Loney Belknap (uncredited)