A Thousand Acres (Blu-ray) R
Best friends. Bitter rivals. Sisters.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 28, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Colin Firth, Keith Carradine & Jason Robards | |
Performer: | Ray Baker, Michelle Williams, Pat Hingle, Vyto Ruginis, Kevin Anderson, Beth Grant, Anne Pitoniak, Kenneth Tigar & John Carroll Lynch | |
Directed by | Jocelyn Moorhouse | |
Edited by | Maryann Brandon | |
Screenplay by | Laura Jones | |
Composition by | Richard Hartley | |
Director of Photography: | Tak Fujimoto |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Despite the golden promise of the cornfields, its crops are barren.
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Chicago Tribune
Rating: 2.5/5 --
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.
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IONCINEMA.com
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.
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Slate
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.
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People Magazine
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.
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Film4
Rating: F --
A Thousand Acres plays like five masochistic Lifetime-channel movies that have been mashed together until they have all the flavor of strained peas.
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Entertainment Weekly
...Sisterhood is powerful in A THOUSAND ACRES....Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange triumphantly share the screen...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
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 1000 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 discover their own individual strengths in the face of adversity, they learn how to survive on their own, without the protection of the farm and the suffocating presence of their father. Moorhouse's film is an epic tale of loss and redemption that highlights strong and earthy performances from Pfeiffer and Lange.