This
film is based on a 1988 novel by Glendon Swarthout. Some of the townspeople in the Nebraska territory come together in
the church for a meeting about three of the wives. They have been driven mad by pioneer life and the
hardships. One is a teenager and
she lost three children to diphtheria, one has two daughters but she killed her
baby, a Scandinavian woman lost her mother and she has never received any human
kindness from her husband. Mary
Bee Cuddy, a middle-aged unmarried woman from upstate New York, agrees to take
the women back to their families.
A minister and his wife living in a
town on the edge of the Missouri River have offered to take the women when they arrive. Mary comes across George Briggs and she employs him to help
her with the women.
The
countryside is very unforgiving, heat, cold, snow, monotony and vastness. Some of the occurrences are hard to
forget, the lives of the women and the incidents on the journey. There are surprises too that I didn’t
see coming. 3 1/2* (I liked this movie)
122
min, Drama directed by Tommy Lee Jones with Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda
Otto, Tommy Lee Jones, Sonja Richter, Jo Harvey Allen, Barry Corbin, David
Dencik, William Fichtner, Evan Jones, Meryl Streep.
Note: Imdb 6.6 out of 10, 82% critic 51% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3 1/2*.
Special Note: The filming took place in New Mexico and one town in Georgia. The role for Meryl Streep is near the end and the filming of her scenes with Tommy Lee Jones took just one day.
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