Tommy Lee Jones‘ latest directorial effort is The Homesman, which premiered at Cannes and recently played Telluride. Roadside Attractions will be releasing it on November 14 and has now released the film’s first official domestic trailer.
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven to the brink, the task of saving them from their surroundings falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a feisty low-life drifter, George Biggs (Tommy Lee Jones), to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women (Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter) head east, where a waiting minister and his wife (Meryl Streep) 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.
It’s interesting to read that synopsis having now seen The Keeping Room, which looks to buck the gender trend of women in peril by centering on three women at the tail end of the Civil War that must fend off two Yankee pricks that come upon their home with violence in mind. It’s the only movie I saw in Toronto that I haven’t yet written my review for and while I didn’t particularly love it, I admire the intention and some of what it had to say.
Anywho, here’s the trailer for The Homesman, give it a look and let me know whatcha think.
