Halloween Flicks Pt. 2
Four more classic horror films that are entertaining even if occasionally absurd.
The Homesman (2014)
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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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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Genre:Western, Drama
Written By:Tommy Lee Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, Wesley Oliver
In Theaters:11/14/2014
Box Office:$3,442,853
Runtime:122 minutes
Studio:The Javelina Film Company, EuropaCorp, Ithaca Pictures
Cast
Tommy Lee Jones
Director
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
Hailee Steinfeld
Tabitha Hutchinson
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