Very good Western, Jones' follow-up to the also excellent The Three Burials of Melquiadas Estrada. I think I liked that one slightly better, but this is very solid, despite some bits of poor editing and some bits of unwelcome weirdness. It's very episodic, as well, though I kind of liked how it was structured. Hilary Swank stars as a single woman in her early 30s out West. When three women in the small settlement of Loup go insane, she volunteers to take them back to civilization so they can get care. Knowing she's not going to be able to cut it alone, she picks up crazy old coot Tommy Lee Jones and brings him along. Swank and Jones are both very good in the film. Plenty of other fine, little performances in the film abound from the likes of William Fichtner, Jesse Plemons, John Lithgow, James Spader (actually not sure if I'd call his uber-Irish performance good or not, but he was amusing), Tim Blake Nelson and Meryl Streep. I kind of hated the depiction of the three crazy women. One of them is Grace Gummer. I think she went insane because she knows she'll never be as good as her mom, and they basically end up returning her butt right to her mother (Streep, if you didn't know).
Review of The Homesman
