A Thousand Acres1997
A Thousand Acres (1997)
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Critic Consensus: 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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Cast
as Rose Cook Lewis
as Ginny Cook Smith
as Larry Cook
as Caroline Cook
as Jess Clark
as Ty Smith
as Peter Lewis
as Harold Clark
as Ken LaSalle
as Mary Livingstone
as Charles Carter
as Pammy
as Linda
as Marv Carson
as Doctor
as Loren Clark
as Henry Dodge
as Frank
as Wallace Crockett
as Roberta
as Waitress
Critic Reviews for A Thousand Acres
All Critics (48) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (37) | DVD (2)
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.
Cry, cry, cry. Hug, hug, hug. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
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.
The story is just an empty, manipulative compilation of tragedies and misunderstandings.
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.
Robards' senile paterfamilias is, regrettably, a grave embarrassment.
Audience Reviews for A Thousand Acres
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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