Lionsgate Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray Tommy Lee Jones' new film
The Homesman (2014), starring Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, James Spader, John Lithgow, and Meryl Streep. The release will be available for purchase on February 17, 2015.
Set in 1854 on the harsh Nebraska frontier, low-life drifter George Briggs (Jones) is rescued by a pious, independent-minded woman named Mary Bee Cuddy (Swank). To pay back his debt, George reluctantly agrees to help Mary transport three women driven mad by the harsh frontier life across the treacherous land - where a kindly minister's wife (Streep) has offered them hospice. The unlikely pair soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be as the group traverses the vast Nebraska Territories, marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant danger.
Already receiving early Oscar buzz, the movie was adapted from the Western Writers of America and Western Heritage Wrangler award-winning novel from Glendon Swarthout.
Special Features:
- "Story to Script" featurette
- "Shooting the Film" featurette
- "19th Century Life" featurette