The read
A Balasaur Score of 69 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes 81%, Metacritic 68/100. Scores higher than 74% of the 100 2010s western movies in this catalog. Streaming on Prime and Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
908 audience votes
Key crew
- Tommy Lee JonesDirector
- Tommy Lee JonesWriter
- Kieran FitzgeraldWriter
- Wesley OliverWriter
- Marco BeltramiOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Hilary SwankMary Bee Cuddy
- Tommy Lee JonesGeorge Briggs
- Grace GummerArabella Sours
- Miranda OttoTheoline Belknap
- Sonja RichterGro Svendsen
- Tim Blake NelsonThe Freighter
- James SpaderAloysius Duffy
- John LithgowReverend Alfred Dowd
- Evan JonesBob Giffen
- Barry CorbinBuster Shaver
- Hailee SteinfeldTabitha Hutchinson
- Meryl StreepAltha Carter
