Paul auster, author of the new york trilogy and report from the interior. It sometimes seems to have a christian viewpoint but then undercuts it in a couple strange, somewhat ambiguous ways that left movieguide scratching its proverbial head. The novel is a classic whodunit kind of like a scooby doo episode, except with fewer monster masks in which the ten characters on the island have to figure out who is killing them all off. Robert belew the fact that this story made a hard left turn is what set it apart. The trip to greece brings an epic journey to a stirring end. Tommy lee jones is directing and starring in the feature film the homesman, along with hilary swank, miranda otto, john lithgow, tim blake nelson and meryl streep. I am a fan of tommy lee jones so this piqued my interest. With tommy lee jones, hilary swank, grace gummer, miranda otto. I dont understand why more women didnt go crazy out on the winter prairies. This angers evan ben stiller, the store manager, who recruits three other guys to join his neighborhood watch. The homesman unfolds around three women who must be sent away, which in a desolate region like this means back east. The homesman went off on a strange tangent and i found myself not really caring how it was going to end. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by tommy lee jones, the homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s american west.
Bee, a lonely woman who, born in the wrong era, is routinely punished for her willfulness. Cara buckley is your guide on the red carpet to the news and the nonsense of awards season, covering the golden globes, the oscars and more. The screenplay by jones, kieran fitzgerald and wesley oliver is based on the 1988 novel of the same name by glendon swarthout. Spend six months trapped inside a dark sodhouse with sickly children, your food and firewood running low, and your nearest neighbor many miles away so you are forced to deliver your baby by. December 9, 2014 below you can view the complete the homesman soundtrack list, score album. Nov, 2014 set on the great plains in the mid1800s, the homesman aims for a story thats poignant and told sparely, but comes across as mawkish, tedious and selfindulgent. Nothing wrong with that, there have been plenty of dark, sad films about the. Cerebral palsy confines shawn mcdaniel to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle. The rough lot handed to women in the old west remains a footnote in the. The homesman soundtrack list movie 2014 tracklist ost list listen to original score, theme music from the motion picture, film score list, the playlist of all of the songs played in the movie, who sings them, including end credits. Set on the great plains in the mid1800s, the homesman aims for a story thats poignant and told sparely, but comes across as mawkish, tedious and selfindulgent. The homesman by michael sragow on november, 2014 tommy lee jones, who reached a midcareer high in the coen brothers adaptation of cormac mccarthys no country for old men and later directed mccarthys novel in dramatic form, the sunset limited, for hbo, has made a movie that declares the nebraska territory in the. The book of mistakes may have words, but its all about the artwork. Luyken could not have provided us with a more perfect lesson for our 7yearold.
The sharp contrasts between western frontier and eastern civilisation nicely point towards the ending of a brief romantic era. The biography is all about the group and how they rose to fame as a boy band. When missing teens begin turning up dead in a small southern town, samantha is assigned to help local chief connor wolfe find the killer. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the homesman. For all shawns father knows, his son may be suffering and may want a release. Tommy lee jones also stars in his second film as a director.
As previously mentioned, the homesman has been released on dvd and bluray in france, yesterday. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Spoilers a question about the ending of the homesman. Her methods are invisible, and she never stops until the case is closed. As long as shawn is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, shawns life is. Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at. Near the end, on his own, george briggs must ford a dangerous river. Nov 14, 2014 the west, as seen in the homesman, is an unforgiving place, with flashes of stark and nightmarish beauty. Tommy lee jones, hilary swank, grace gummer, miranda otto, sonja richter, david dencik, john lithgow, tim blake nelson, james spader. One of swarthouts skeletons, the old colts, the melodeon, etc. The homesman is a 2014 historical period drama set in the 1850s midwest, directed by tommy lee jones. An overnight security guard at the store is murdered by an unseen menace. Housman, was an english classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems a shropshire lad. Mary bee cuddy is a 30ish spinster, tough as nails but yearning for a man, who has set up a nice homestead out near the town of loup, in oklahoma territory.
Three women have lost their minds in the homesman, but honestly, everyone you meet in the film is slightly crazy, the homesman most of all. The homesman is a quirky, slowmoving, ultimately depressing western based on a novel. A strongwilled woman recruits a loathsome drifter to help transport three insane women across the unforgiving nebraska territories so that they may find sanctuary with a compassionate minister and his wife in this drama directed and cowritten by tommy lee jones. It focusses on the struggles they faced, their breakup, and reunion. Glendon swarthouts novel the homesman 1988 is made into a. The homesman stars hilary swank and tommy lee jones the. Thats just about the worst thing mary bee cuddy could ever say to a person. I purchased the book on amazon cheaper and read it in about three sittings. Based on a novel by glendon swarthout who also wrote the.
Dec 10, 2014 and therein lay the challenge of costuming the homesman, a bleak frontier tale that finds mary bee cuddy, a desperate, homely spinster played by hilary swank, and george briggs, a noaccount drifter played by the films director and one of its writers, tommy lee jones, on a fiveweek journey to guide three disturbed women across the. In tommy lee joness the homesman, which premiered in. The homesman is a remarkable western delving into numerous social issues all but ignored by other films of the genre such as the role of marriage, the churchs role in society, womens role in. One throws a baby away in an outhouse, and other dead babies are also shown. They scream, thrash, and moan, and one cuts herself with a needle. This book shows how real estate consumers lose millions of dollars every year due to several simple but very costly mistakes. The film stars jones and hilary swank and also features meryl streep, grace gummer, miranda otto, hailee steinfeld. It is a straightforwardly told story that pays tribute to people who faced unthinkable conditions. A homesman must be found to escort a handful of them back east to a sanitarium. What does the homesman say about womens roles in frontier america related. The western drama, directed by tommy lee jones and starring jones, hilary swank, james spader, john lithgow and meryl streep in a cameo performance, had its world premiere at the cannes film festival this spring and released french theaters shortly after hence the early home media release. Spend six months trapped inside a dark sodhouse with sickly children, your food and firewood running low, and your nearest neighbor many.
Why hilary swank breaks your heart in the homesman indiewire. Complete summary of glendon swarthouts the homesman. Did tommy share with you a lot of research with books and old photographs. The homesman soundtrack list the homesman movie 2014. The journey in tommy lee jones the homesman, based on the 1988 novel by glendon swarthout, travels from west to east, from the unmarked nebraska territory to a town in iowa. The journey in tommy lee jones the homesman, based on the 1988 novel by glendon swarthout, travels from west to east, from the. Through the assured voice of his narrator and the subtle beauty of his writing, neverhome took me on a journey so thoroughly engrossed that there were times the pages seemed to turn themselves. And in the best scene of the film, when an endofherrope mrs. Dont let mistakes get you down, learn from them and expect great things to follow. The look of the film brings to mind a john ford western, set on the plains, and its a hard tale of. Jones is also wise enough to step into the supporting role, giving swank room to do her best stuff as mary bee, an extraordinary woman whos as strong as a man yet full of yearning and forever. Hailed as a feminist western by some, the homesman only is up to a point, writes mark kermode. He later played a doctor who transfers the consciousness.
Spoilers a question about the ending of the homesman 2014. The homesman is a 2014 historical drama set in the 1850s midwest, directed by tommy lee jones. Women are the center of the action, women drive the action forward, women are not only damsels in distress but heroic figures of grit and courage sometimes in the same. Tommy lee jones also stars in his second film as a director a fullbodied quasifeminist western. A biographical threepart miniseries called the new edition story, was released in january this year. Tommy lee jones miscast homesman too dark for anyones good. Anyone who imagines that a homesteaders life on americas great plains was all little house on the prairie hasnt tried it. And then there were none is only one of the most famous mystery stories of all time, so it would only make sense that it would fit in this genre. In the homesman, a most unromantic american west hilary swank and tommy lee jones play two very different people taking a dangerous trip across the arid plains in a beautifully photographed film. Notes from no mans land collects forceful, beautiful essays that examine race through a frame of reference both personal and wideranging. Its an unusual story about four women who loose their minds after a hard winter in the nebraska territory in the 1850s.
The point of the homesman, directed by tommy lee jones and based on glendon swarthouts novel of the same name, is not that these adjectives are inappropriate. It shows how sensible people, who carefully watch every dollar, throw thousands of dollars away when they buy or sell a home. The new edition story was coproduced by each of the six members of the group. Tommy lee jones, directing his second feature, takes the opposite approach in the homesman. Its really difficult for authors to come up with a twist in a storyline which isnt predictable and somewhat expected. And then theres the fact that she looks exactly like his late wife. Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independentminded mary bee cuddy, who in turn employs lowlife drifter george briggs to assist her. Hailed as a feminist western by some, the homesman only is. The film stars jones and hilary swank and also features meryl streep, grace gummer, miranda otto, hailee steinfeld, john lithgow, and james spader. The eldest of seven children, housman was born at valley house in fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of bromsgrove in worcestershire, to sarah jane nee williams, married 17 june 1858 in woodchester, gloucester and edward housman whose family came from lancaster, and was baptised on 24 april 1859 at christ church, in catshill.
This book, the homesman, caught my eye at costco because of the cover. Cutty begs briggs to marry her not for romance, just for practicality and survivals. But dark or light, wrong or right, the oscar winner for 1993s the fugitive slips. Tommy lee jones directs and stars in a new western. The homesman hilary swank and tommy lee jones go west with volatile cargo. Based on a novel by glendon swarthout and adapted by jones, kieran. It is a reverse trajectory of the typical western path, the wildness of the prairies and plains reverting, startlingly, to a tame village perched on the edge of the placid missouri river. Tommy lee jones is directing and starring in the feature film the homesman, along with hilary swank, miranda otto, john lithgow, tim. The homesman is a dark, complex story of gender issues and changing conventions on the frontier, and in an era that sees this genre fading, jones has made a western winner. Tommy lee jones in competition western stars hilary swank, john lithgow, james spader, hailee steinfeld and meryl streep. May 18, 2014 tommy lee jones in competition western stars hilary swank, john lithgow, james spader, hailee steinfeld and meryl streep. Director, star and cowriter tommy lee joness earthy adaptation of glendon swarthouts novel has been. Its really difficult for authors to come up with a twist in a storyline whichmore the fact that this story made a hard left turn is what set it apart. An error occurred while retrieving sharing information.
I dont understand the ending of the movie and was wondering if anyone else can shed some light on the rest of the movie after tommy lee jones drops off the three women. Simply streep the meryl streep archives the homesman. The homesman stars hilary swank and tommy lee jones. Mar 06, 1988 the homesman went off on a strange tangent and i found myself not really caring how it was going to end.
The homesman jordan hoffman 05182014 you are a man of low character. It was what an odd and ultimately disappointing read this was. Laird hunts new novel is a beguiling and evocative story about love and loss, duty and deceit. Nov, 2014 in the homesman, a most unromantic american west hilary swank and tommy lee jones play two very different people taking a dangerous trip across the arid plains in a beautifully photographed film.
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