American western drama film directed by Tommy Lee Jones and co-written with Kieran Fitzgerald and Wesley Oliver. Film stars Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, William Fichtner and Meryl Streep.
Independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). Transports three women by covered wagon to Iowa, The harsh pioneer life has driven these women mad, and with the assistance of George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones), they cross the Nesbraska frontier, to Iowa. Waiting there is the minister's wife Altha Carter (Meryl Streep) who has agreed to take in the Women.
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