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Release Date
• USA: Sep 19, 1997
DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 21, 1998
MPAA Rating
Rated R for some strong sexual language.
Running Time
1 hour, 45 minutes
Country USA
Studio Beacon Pictures, Buena Vista, Prairie Films, Propaganda Films, Touchstone Pictures, Via Rosa
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Other Titles
• A Thousand Acres
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Genre: Drama, Betrayal, Disturbing, Infidelity, Epic, Courtroom, Revenge, Psychodrama
Tagline: Best friends. Bitter rivals. Sisters.
Plot: A THOUSAND ACRES, 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 a law career in Des Moines and refuses to take part in the deal. Initially, Larry is consumed with rage and shuts out Caroline while Rose and Ginny go about running the farm with their dutiful but greedy husbands. However, as Larry begins to lose touch with his farming life, he loses touch with reality, and his painful descent into madness leaves him bitterly opposed to his daughters' ways of running the farm. Paranoid and disillusioned, he decides to sue Rose and Ginny with Caroline's help in an effort to regain his patriarchal control. The lawsuit divides the family forever, leaving Rose and Ginny to suffer alone while realizing painful memories from their childhood. As Rose and Ginny
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| Laura Jones
Angela's Ashes, The Portrait of a Lady, Oscar and Lucinda |
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 | Jason Robards
Once Upon a Time in the West, Philadelphia, All the President's Men |
 | Colin Firth
Shakespeare in Love, Bridget Jones's Diary, The English Patient |
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Richard Hartley
Stealing Beauty, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Playing God |
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