A Thousand Acres
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Actor: Colin Firth, Jason Robards, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jessica Lange, Michelle PfeifferDirector: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Brand: Disney
Producer: Armyan Bernstein
Producer: Diana Pokorny
Producer: Kate Guinzburg
Producer: Lynn Arost
Producer: Marc Abraham
Writer: Jane Smiley
Writer: Laura Jones
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-04-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of A Thousand Acres
Movie Review: Awesome Lange/Pfeiffer drama!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was born and raised in Illinois and was a teenager when this film came out. I remember reading in the news about them filming near my town in Rochelle, Illinois. I also worked with a lady who had an extra role in this. You will see her in the bakery behind the counter when Jessica Lange and Jennifer Jason Leigh walk in and purchase something. Of course I remember her telling me that it wasn't her voice you hear speak back it was done as a voiceover. She also told me all the extras had to sign agreements that they would not approach or try and talk to Jessica Lange or Michelle Pfeiffer on set. I just recently watched this again as an adult and love it. Everything about it is wonderful, and I can't think of any reason to give it less than 5 stars. The cast is excellent and the story is gripping and intriguing. You will easily be drawn into this powerful drama with superb performances just as it says on the DVD cover. If you like this genre of film and appreciate some of the best actors in their field, you will not be disappointed. This is as good as it gets.
Summary of A Thousand Acres
Academy Award(R)-winner Jessica Lange (Best Actress, 1995, BLUE SKY) and Michelle Pfeiffer (ONE FINE DAY) join Jennifer Jason Leigh (GEORGIA) and Oscar(R)-winner Jason Robards (1977, Best Supporting Actor, ALL THE PRSIDENT'S MEN) in this widely acclaimed motion picture about silence and betrayal ... rivalry and revenge! When an aging father retires, he passes the thriving family farm on to his three daughters. But this generous gift ignites an exposive series of events that threaten to tear the family apart forever! This powerful story of shocking secrets, unspoken rivalries, and hidden desires is a film you must see ... with performances you'll never forget!Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer are quietly dazzling in this underrated adaptation of Jane Smiley's best-selling modern version of King Lear. The two play sisters of a stubborn, alcoholic Iowa farmer (Jason Robards), who decides to leave his fertile farm to them and their youngest sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh). It is a decision that rends the family, setting siblings against one another and forcing long-held secrets out of their guilty closets. The family dynamics become ever more destructive, and the refuge of sanity the two older sisters have created may be their only salvation. It's a tragedy not quite on a Shakespearean scale, but anyone who appreciates the difficulties of a dysfunctional family will relate to the heartbreak--and the promise of redemption. Pfeiffer especially is breathtaking as the good housewife Rose, whose rage at her father and her husband is never far from her placid surface. --Anne Hurley
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