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We welcome back Richard Lawson this week to discuss Tommy Lee Jones’s final (to date!) directorial effort, 2014’s The Homesman<\/em>. Led by Hilary Swank, the film follows a 19th century woman charged to transport three women with “prairie madness” across the Nebraska Territory. With Jones as a wayward man who assists her journey, the film debuted at Cannes and promised a return to the Best Actress race for Swank that never came to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This episode, we talk about Swank’s two Best Actress Oscars and Richard details his first experience with Cannes. We also talk about this film’s arrival after neo-westerns made a splash in the late aughts, its reflection on women during old west times, and Meryl Streep’s third act cameo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topics also include Ben Schnetzer, Amy Madigan narrating the Donner Party, and Julianne Moore’s sudden arrival in 2014’s Best Actress race with Still Alice<\/em>.<\/p>\n