IF YOU LIKE your Westerns grim and gritty and make your way to Keighley Picture House on Sunday. (April 19)
Keighley Film Club will present the certificate-15 movie The Homesman at the North Street cinema at 5.45pm.
The 122-minute film, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swanks, Meryl Streep, Grace Gummer and John Lithgow, rejects the romantic nostalgia of the past.
Club spokesman Alan Watkinson said: “It is a grimly realistic Western set in the bleak unforgiving landscape of Nebraska where the hardship of frontier life has driven three local women mad.
“Mary, a strong, unmarried and resilient woman, takes on the task of transporting these women back to civilisation in Iowa when their men refuse to help.
“She saves George, a low life drifter from lynching, and in return gets him to provide protection on the perilous five-month journey from attacks by native Americans, lawless gangs and the harsh Nebraskan winter of 1854.”
Mr Watkinson described The Homesman as sad, dark, atmospheric and disturbing.
He added: “The Homesman is an adult film and is not for the faint-hearted with its mix of violence, disturbing behaviour, sexual content and nudity.”
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