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Release Date: 1997

Cast: Jason Robards, Pat Hingle, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Vyto Ruginis, Elisabeth Moss, Colin Firth, Keith Carradine, Kevin Anderson, Jessica Lange, Anne Pitoniak, Michelle Williams ...MORE

Cast: Jason Robards, Pat Hingle, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Vyto Ruginis, Elisabeth Moss, Colin Firth, Keith Carradine, Kevin Anderson, Jessica Lange, Anne Pitoniak, Michelle Williams, John Carroll Lynch ...LESS

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A Thousand Acres (1997) is an American motion picture drama 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... MORE

A Thousand Acres (1997) is an American motion picture drama 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 powerful 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 LESS