Certain Women drops us into a handful of intersecting lives across Montana. A lawyer ( ) tries to defuse a hostage situation and calm her disgruntled client ( ), who feels slighted by a workers' compensation settlement. A married couple ( and ) 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 ( ) forms an attachment to a young lawyer ( ), who inadvertently finds herself teaching a twice-weekly...