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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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Despite the golden promise of the cornfields, its crops are barren. Nov 26, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Despite the golden promise of the cornfields, its crops are barren.
Michael Wilmington
A Thousand Acres plays like five masochistic Lifetime-channel movies that have been mashed together until they have all the flavor of strained peas. Sep 7, 2011 | Rating: F | Full Review…
A Thousand Acres plays like five masochistic Lifetime-channel movies that have been mashed together until they have all the flavor of strained peas.
Owen Gleiberman
From the first frame, a silhouetted barn and windmill at dawn, the images feel prefab, and the all-purpose wistful tinkly piano and sighing strings pin them even more boringly down. Jul 3, 2008 | Full Review…
From the first frame, a silhouetted barn and windmill at dawn, the images feel prefab, and the all-purpose wistful tinkly piano and sighing strings pin them even more boringly down.
David Edelstein
Cry, cry, cry. Hug, hug, hug. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Jul 3, 2008 | Full Review…
Cry, cry, cry. Hug, hug, hug. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
Paul Tatara
Owing more to the spirit of Oprah than to the Bard, pic serves up an earnest but unconvincing stew of received notions about family dysfunction, awkwardly put across by a script wheezing with melodramatic contrivances. Jul 3, 2008
Owing more to the spirit of Oprah than to the Bard, pic serves up an earnest but unconvincing stew of received notions about family dysfunction, awkwardly put across by a script wheezing with melodramatic contrivances.
Godfrey Cheshire
The story is just an empty, manipulative compilation of tragedies and misunderstandings. Jul 3, 2008 | Full Review…
The story is just an empty, manipulative compilation of tragedies and misunderstandings.
Lisa Alspector
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. Nov 26, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
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.
Ann Hornaday
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. Nov 26, 2019 | Full Review…
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.
Leah Rozen
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. Sep 6, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Nicholas Bell
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. Jul 3, 2008 | Full Review…
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.
Film4 Staff
Proof that Hollywood no longer knows how to make that former staple, the women's picture. Jul 3, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Proof that Hollywood no longer knows how to make that former staple, the women's picture.
Maitland McDonagh
It's a pretty powerful analysis of an extended family (where lifelong friends in farming are integral to the well being of a community) shot apart by power and greed. Apr 9, 2005 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
It's a pretty powerful analysis of an extended family (where lifelong friends in farming are integral to the well being of a community) shot apart by power and greed.
Laura Clifford
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