A Thousand Acres (1997)
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Directed by: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Starring: Jessica Lange (Ginny), Michelle Pfeiffer (Rose), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Caroline), Colin Firth (Jess), Jason Robards (Dad), Keith Carradine (Ty), Kevin Anderson (Peter), Michelle Williams (Daughter 1), Elisabeth Moss (Daughter 2)
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 01:45:40
Genres: Siblings-Family, Infidelity, Incest, Old-Young
Plot – Spoilers:
A Thousand Acres is based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
Ginny and Rose are sisters who’ve lived on their ancestral thousand-acre farm all their lives. Rose has a couple of girls and recently had a breast removed to cancer, while Ginny is childless having suffered multiple miscarriages. They have a baby sister Caroline who’s a lawyer in the city but the two are very close especially now that both their marriages are fading out. They also lean on each other while dealing with their proud and dictatorial father who also lives on the farm.
The two women’s lives are stirred by the return of a childhood friend Jess after years, and the surprising announcement by their father to divide the property among them. Things get complicated when Caroline is cut out of the deal and Dad starts behaving erratically as he begins to feel increasingly irrelevant. This also pushes the two sisters to confront a dark past that has been unsaid and brushed under.
A good cast, fine acting and a story well told.
pretty depressing movie, i felt it was really slow at some points but i really felt for rose when they left the courtroom, all that pain her father put her through and he’s blissfully ignorant to all of it.
the scene in the resturant really shocked me, people are so dismissive of abuse wihtin the family they just want to sweep it under the rug rather than deal with it pretty upsetting to see that they were never really seen or heard by their peers.
Should have included misery depressing in the description
pourquoi je ne peux pas visionner le film, please tead me.merci