![]() ![]() Caroline, who is a successful lawyer in Des Moines, takes up her father’s cause and sues her two older sisters to re-obtain her father’s land, which forces a ripple effect of retribution and revenge among the Cook clan, all of whom harbor memories of damaging traumas from growing up on the farm. ![]() However, once Cook loses control of his lands, a swift decline in dementia leads to immediate regret and acting out on his part. ![]() When farming patriarch Larry Cook (Jason Robards) decides to divide his prosperous family farm to his three daughters, Ginny (Jessica Lange), Rose (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Caroline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the youngest daughter expresses doubts about the prospects, leading her to be locked out of the final agreement. And yet, as Lange herself pointed out after publicly denigrating the final film product, the core performances make this star-studded debacle as watchable, and even compelling as ever. After poor test audience responses, the film was heavily re-edited, resulting in some choppy continuity (particularly with Lange’s hairstyles) and dreadful omniscient narration. A highly compromised and ultimately disappointing adaptation of Jane Smiley’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel A Thousand Acres seems to have been a grueling experience for all the main players, including Michelle Pfeiffer, who had been working on getting the film version produced through most of the early 1990s. ![]()
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