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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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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
In many ways, it has less in common with Shakespeare's tragedy than with Stephen King's Iowa-set horror story, Children of the Corn. Jul 3, 2008 | Full Review…
In many ways, it has less in common with Shakespeare's tragedy than with Stephen King's Iowa-set horror story, Children of the Corn.
Rita Kempley
Robards' senile paterfamilias is, regrettably, a grave embarrassment. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Robards' senile paterfamilias is, regrettably, a grave embarrassment.
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
... just doesn't work. Mar 31, 2005 | Rating: C
... just doesn't work.
Philip Martin
Fans of Jane Smiley's enthralling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, will find the movie version disappointing. Jul 1, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Fans of Jane Smiley's enthralling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, will find the movie version disappointing.
Judith Egerton
An amazing and courageous movie. Phenomenal story plot. Here is an endearing movie that will leave you a bit teary-eyed. Great cast- Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Colin Firth, Jason Robards, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Definitely worthy.
Super Reviewer
A story of familial dysfunction,loyalty and betrayal.Reminded me of King Lear.Stellar casr and a very good adaptation of the book.
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