A Thousand Acres
by Jocelyn Moorhouse
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Actor: Colin Firth, Jason Robards, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jessica Lange, Michelle PfeifferDirector: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Brand: LANGE,JESSICA
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-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 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: Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jason Robards - need I say more?
Summary: 5 Stars
This film was beautifully shot with an incredible score running through the backdrop. The acting between Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange and Jason Robards was furiously fantastic. Why they weren't acknowledged for their performances in this is a travesty. This is a very heavy film, and you have to be in the right frame of mind to take it in as it's wracked with resentment, anger, and shocking moments. The only criticisms I'd have about this film would be it feels as if it jumped to fast from one scene to the next seemingly to propel the story quickly to the finish line, and also unfortunate that Jennifer Jason Leigh seemed to be barely non-existent in the film, almost as if the Director and the Editor decided it best to throw the majority of her scenes on the cutting room floor in order to keep the film on a time limit. Otherwise a classic piece showcasing some fine acting that draws you into it's family of horrors. The extra final star on this review is because of the brilliant work by the cast in a story that works in a book, but difficult to squeeze on film.
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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