"A beautifully crafted, absorbing look at life in the American West."
-Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

"Profoundly compassionate and subversive. Stands among the year's most powerful American films. In its unsentimental poetry, its stripped-down imagery and its unforgettable lead performances, a ruthless western classic." -Andrew O'Hehir, Salon

"For a movie headlined by two Oscar-winning Hollywood stars--and directed and co-written by one of them --THE HOMESMAN is awfully close to outsider art." -Ty Burr, Boston Globe

The latest film from director/actor Tommy Lee Jones ("The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"), THE HOMESMAN is set in the 1830s on the harsh, unforgiving plains. 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 (Hilary Swank). 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 (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. James Spader and John Lithgow co-star.