A Thousand Acres
Best friends. Bitter rivals. Sisters.
Best friends. Bitter rivals. Sisters.
Drama
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1997
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The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
105 min
Release date:
19 Sep 1997
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins.
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
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.
– David Edelstein,
Slate,
3 Jul 2008
rotten:
Cry, cry, cry. Hug, hug, hug. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
– Paul Tatara,
CNN.com,
3 Jul 2008
rotten:
Owing more to the spirit of Oprah than to the Bard, pic serves up an earnest but unconvincing stew of received notions about family dysfunction, awkwardly put across by a script wheezing with melodramatic contrivances.
– Godfrey Cheshire,
Variety,
3 Jul 2008
rotten:
The story is just an empty, manipulative compilation of tragedies and misunderstandings.
– Lisa Alspector,
Chicago Reader,
3 Jul 2008
rotten:
In many ways, it has less in common with Shakespeare's tragedy than with Stephen King's Iowa-set horror story, Children of the Corn.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
3 Jul 2008