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Drama
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Director:
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Jocelyn Moorhouse
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Actors:
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Anne Pitoniak,
Kenneth Tigar,
Michelle Pfeiffer,
Jessica Lange,
Jason Robards,
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Colin Firth,
Keith Carradine,
Kevin Anderson,
Pat Hingle,
John Carroll Lynch,
Vyto Ruginis,
Michelle Williams,
Elisabeth Moss,
Ray Toler
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(5.8/10)78
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Plot Summary:
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A THOUSAND ACRES, director Jocelyn Moorhouse's sift adaptation of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Esteem-victorious novel, finds skeins of Regent LEAR-like conflict running help of the bedrock of a midwestern family. Jason Robards stars as Larry Cook, a powerful, stoic Iowa agriculturist who decides to retire and split his 1,000 acres of land volume his three daughters. His two eldest daughters, Rose (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Ginny (Jessica Lange), actual and make excited on the farm and happily accept the lucrative agreement, while the youngest, Larry's favorite, Caroline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), has aba... ndoned agriculture life for a law employment in Des Moines and refuses to take part in the large. Initially, Larry is consumed with rage and shuts out of order Caroline while Rose and Ginny decline about meet the delegate with their dutiful but cormorant husbands. However, as Larry begins to lose touch with his farming elasticity, he loses adjoin with genuineness, and his aggravating descent into illogicality leaves him bitterly opposed to his daughters' ways of running the farm. Paranoid and disillusioned, he decides to sue Rose and Ginny with Caroline's improve in an effort to regain his patriarchal domination. The lawsuit divides the progeny forever, leaving Rose and Ginny to suffer peerless while realising detailed memories from their infancy. As Rose and Ginny locate their own individual strengths in the face of adversity, they learn how to reachable on their own, without the preservation of the farm and the suffocating phlegm of their father. Moorhouse's pellicle is an epic story of loss and redemption that highlights strong and earthy performances from Pfeiffer and Lange.
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Not a first date movie
All the leads give excellent performances, particularly Jessica lange and Michee Pfeiffer, and Colin Firth gives good American as the crumpet, but all the male characters are hateful- lame at best. Its a good film for a girls' night in, but bear in mind there are no laughs in it anywhere.
Thousand Acres, A
Jane Smiley's PulitZer prize-winning novel plays a contemporary variation on King Lear as three daughters squabble over their widowed father's farm. After the dynasty divides against itself old enmities resurface and the scene is set for a rerun of the 10 plagues in modern form (breast cancer scares, infertility, adulterous affairs and domestic violence), which puts both actresses and audience through the emotional wringer. All the characters are sharply defined, with Lange and Pfeiffer in fine form, and Robards suitably sour as the grumpy old curmudgeon, but the plot has been watered down until it is little more than a Waltons-styled soap.
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