Certain Women drops us into a handful of intersecting lives across Montana. A lawyer ( Laura Dern ) tries to defuse a hostage situation and calm her disgruntled client ( Jared Harris ), who feels slighted by a workers' compensation settlement. A married couple ( Michelle Williams and James Le Gros ) breaks ground on a new home but exposes marital fissures when they try to persuade an elderly man to sell his stockpile of sandstone. A ranch hand ( Lily Gladstone ) forms an attachment to a young lawyer ( Kristen Stewart ), who inadvertently finds herself teaching a twice-weekly adult education class, four hours from her home. — Polly_Kat
