A Thousand Acres

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A Thousand Acres

R

1997

1h 45m

Drama

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2,500+ Ratings

A patriarch (Jason Robards) deeds his farm to two (Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange) of his three daughters in a modern "King Lear" set in the U.S. Midwest.

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A Thousand Acres makes disappointingly sudsy stuff out of the source material, but benefits from solid performances by a strong cast.

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Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

11/27/2019

2.5/4

Despite the golden promise of the cornfields, its crops are barren.

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Ann Hornaday

Baltimore Sun

11/27/2019

2/4

Both beg the question of whether rage or forgiveness is the correct moral response to immoral acts. It's a good question, but one that's probably better contemplated by reading a good book rather than watching a pale imitation.

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

09/07/2011

F

A Thousand Acres plays like five masochistic Lifetime-channel movies that have been mashed together until they have all the flavor of strained peas.

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Leah Rozen

People Magazine

11/27/2019

With, in effect, two authors to accommodate, the movie exhausts the audience by piling on the tear-jerky plot: fatal diseases and accidents, extramarital affairs, lawsuits, you name it.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

09/07/2018

2.5/5

This is the type of perverse material which would have made a fine high-profile spectacle from the late 1950s or 60s, when its issues could ride the line between sacred and profane, obvious and subtle.

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Jerod S

@jeroduptown 12/09/2022

Missed this one along the way - but it has some great talent in it. Pfeiffer and Lange are country sisters that finally come to grips with a dark childhood on the farm. Daddy is a southern tyrant and family is country dysfunctional.

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09/06/2020

Is there one character who isn't a walking disaster? Just one? I have enjoyed many of Jane Smiley's books, but I couldn't make it through A Thousand Acres. I was hoping the film would be better, but even a cast of very fine actors wasn't enough to redeem this. I wonder how this would have been received in the Me Too era.

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Emilio T

@MilloTPue 07/11/2020

Between 2 and 2.5 stars. Too conventional drama.

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steve d

@RT35616104 07/07/2020

The performances can't save the uninteresting film.

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06/27/2016

Another stellar film by Jocelyn Moorehouse. A fantastic A-list cast with mesmerising performances. A formidable depiction of what women and girls endure in everyday life.

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11/04/2014

En flott film,på godt og vondt.

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Synopsis

A patriarch (Jason Robards) deeds his farm to two (Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange) of his three daughters in a modern "King Lear" set in the U.S. Midwest.

Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Producer: Marc Abraham, Lynn Arost, Steve Golin, Kate Guinzburg, Sigurjon Sighvatsson
Screenwriter: Laura Jones
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Oct 30, 2001
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.9M
Runtime: 1h 45m
Sound Mix: Surround