A Thousand Acres

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Directed by

Jocelyn Moorhouse

Starring (View all)

Michelle Pfeiffer
Rose Cook Lewis

Jessica Lange
Ginny Cook Smith

Jason Robards
Larry Cook

Jennifer Jason Leigh
Caroline Cook

Colin Firth
Jess Clark

Keith Carradine
Ty Smith

Kevin Anderson
Peter Lewis

Pat Hingle
Harold Clark

Written by

Jane Smiley
(novel)

Laura Jones
(screenplay)

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An average movie

12 years ago at Nov 19 13:57

johanlefourbe

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this movie but since there was a pretty good cast, I thought I should check it out. Not only there was a really interesting cast (Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Colin Firth), but it was also an adaptation of a Pulitzer prize winning novel which was also a loose adaptation of ‘King Lear’ written by good old William Shakespeare. So, it... read more

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Description: "King Lear" set on a farm in Iowa. Director Jocelyn Moorhouse's screen adaptation of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, finds skeins of KING LEAR-like conflict running through the bedrock of a midwestern family. Jason Robards stars as Larry Cook, a powerful, stoic Iowa farmer who decides to retire and split his 1,000 acres of land among his three daughters. His two eldest daughters, Rose (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Ginny (Jessica Lange), live and work on the farm and happily accept the lucrative agreement, while the youngest, Larry's favorite, Caroline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), has abandoned farming life for ... (more)

Release date: 19 September 1997
UPC: 717951000330

Tags: Drama (3), 1997 (3), 1990s (2), Michelle Pfeiffer (2), Jessica Lange (2), Based On A Novel (2), Spiritual Cinema (1), Critically Bashed (1), Jane Smiley (1), Box Office Flop (1), Jennifer Jason Leigh (1), Pat Hingle (1), Sort (1), SnP (1)

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