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A Thousand Acres is a 1997 American drama film directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards. It is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize -winning novel of the same name by Jane Smiley , which itself is a reworking of William Shakespeare 's King Lear .
A Thousand Acres: Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. With Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jason Robards, Jennifer Jason Leigh. A family is torn apart after a father gives his valuable farm land to his daughters.
A patriarch (Jason Robards) deeds his farm to two (Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange) of his three daughters in a modern "King Lear" set in the U.S. Midwest. A Thousand Acres makes disappointingly...
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A Thousand Acres is a 1997 American drama film directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards. It is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Jane Smiley, which itself is a reworking of William Shakespeare's King Lear.
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm. Jocelyn Moorhouse.
19 Sep 1997 · The movie is set on the 1,000-acre Cook farm in Iowa, where the weathered and wise old patriarch Larry (Jason Robards) is the most powerful farmer for miles around. Then he announces he has decided to retire, and to divide his farm into three parts, giving shares to each of his daughters.
