Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, France
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- dancing
- based on novel or book
- native american
- revenge
- wild west
- driven insane
- abusive marriage
- refused services
- prison wagon
- lost in the desert
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Meryl Streep — Altha Carter
- William Fichtner — Vester Belknap
- David Dencik — Thor Svendsen
- Jesse Plemons — Garn Sours
- Directed
- Tommy Lee Jones
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 897 ratings
- Studio
- The Javelina Film Company, EuropaCorp, Ithaca Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
