“There’s been some trouble about the women hereabouts,” says John Lithgow’s plains preacher in Tommy Lee Jones’ “The Homesman.” The hereabouts is a tiny, hardscrabble settlement in the Nebraska ...

The Women Film Critics Circle has announced nominees for the year, and it was Tommy Lee Jones' “The Homesman” that led the way with six total nominations. The Hilary Swank vehicle picked up nods for ...

There is a prescient shot that opens “The Homesman,” the spare frontier drama starring Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones. A flat stretch of Nebraska plain, a blanket of blue-gray sky, as if God himself ...

CANNES – Tommy Lee Jones has made a kind of reverse Western with his second directorial effort, “The Homesman.” “We didn't think about westerns or genre or anything except making a movie about ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- "The Homesman" is a new movie starring Hilary Swank, directed by Tommy Lee Jones. The film, based on a novel of the same name, tells the story of a woman named Mary Bee Cuddy ...

Apart from the surly old bandit referred to by the film’s title, nearly all the characters of import in Tommy Lee Jones’ “The Homesman” are women. Some, like the hardy pioneer embodied by Hilary Swank ...

Tommy Lee Jones made two things clear at a Sunday press conference that followed the first screening of his film “The Homesman” at the Cannes Film Festival: Yes, as Sasha Stone suggested in her review ...

To finance “The Homesman,” a 1850s Western drama playing in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Tommy Lee Jones turned to some of his closest friends. Jones sent his old polo-playing ...

The actor-director, who stars opposite Hilary Swank in the Western drama, talked gender politics and “American imperialism” in a charged press conference. By Stuart Kemp CANNES — Tommy Lee Jones has ...

As an actor, Tommy Lee Jones has a face and temperament made for westerns, so it’s no surprise that his scant credits behind the camera are almost exclusively limited to the genre. Released nearly a ...

‘The Homesman,’ being released in the thick of Hollywood’s awards season, seemingly has all the ingredients to be in contention for this honor or that statuette. It’s a Western with an unusual story, ...

There are Westerns that romanticize the American frontier. There are those that paint it as a place of grand adventure and 10-gallon nobility, a place populated by flawed heroes with ill manners but a ...