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
A Thousand Acres
Best friends. Bitter rivals. Sisters.
1997 · 1h 45m · R
Drama, Family
Directed by
Jocelyn Moorhouse
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A Thousand Acres
Overview
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.
Director and cast
- Jocelyn Moorhouse Director
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Rose Cook Lewis
- Jessica Lange as Ginny Cook Smith
- Jason Robards as Larry Cook
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Caroline Cook
- Colin Firth as Jess Clark
- Keith Carradine as Ty Smith
- Kevin Anderson as Peter Lewis
- Pat Hingle as Harold Clark
- John Carroll Lynch as Ken LaSalle
- Anne Pitoniak as Mary Livingstone
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
23%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Cry, cry, cry. Hug, hug, hug. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
Paul Tatara, CNN.com
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
Rotten
The story is just an empty, manipulative compilation of tragedies and misunderstandings.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
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
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