A Thousand Acres (film)
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Jocelyn Moorhouse |
| Produced by |
Marc Abraham Thomas Bliss |
| Screenplay by | Laura Jones |
| Based on |
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Richard Hartley |
| Cinematography | Tak Fujimoto |
| Edited by | Maryann Brandon |
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Production
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| Distributed by |
Buena Vista Pictures (USA) Beacon Communications PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (foreign markets) |
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Release date
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September 19, 1997 (USA) |
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Running time
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105 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $23 million |
| Box office | $7,928,412 |
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 character of Larry Cook corresponds to the title character of that play, while the characters of Ginny, Rose and Caroline represent Lear's daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. The dramatic catalyst in both works is the division of the father's estate among his three offspring, causing bitter rivalry and ultimately leading to tragedy.
Larry Cook (Jason Robards), a prosperous Iowa farmer, decides to retire and split his acres of land among his three daughters, Ginny (Jessica Lange), Rose (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Caroline (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Ginny and Rose happily accept the lucrative agreement to live and work on the farm but Caroline abandons farming for a law career in Des Moines and refuses to take part in the deal.
Larry is consumed with rage and rejects Caroline, leaving Rose and Ginny to go about running the farm with their husbands (Keith Carradine and Kevin Anderson). However, as Larry loses touch with farming life, he begins to lose touch with reality, and his painful descent into senility leaves him bitterly opposed to his daughters' ways of running the farm.
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