The HomesmanCannes vet Tommy Lee Jones returns to the competition nine years after his directorial debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (which won him the festival's best actor prize). This is the tale of a claim jumper (Lee Jones) who teams up with Hilary Swank to escort three disturbed women from Nebraska to Iowa. The supporting cast includes John Lithgow as a Reverend, Tim Blake Nelson as a freighter, plus Grace Gummer as one of the girls, and real-life mother Meryl Streep, resplendent in mid-west bonnet.