A thousand acres
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A thousand acres |
| Original title | A thousand acres |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jocelyn Moorhouse |
| script | Laura Jones |
| production |
Marc Abraham , Lynn Arost , Steve Golin , Kate Guinzburg , Michelle Pfeiffer , Sigurjon Sighvatsson |
| music | Richard Hartley |
| camera | Tak Fujimoto |
| cut | Maryann Brandon |
| occupation | |
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A Thousand Acres ( A Thousand Acres ) is an American film drama by Jocelyn Moorhouse wrote in 1997. The screenplay Laura Jones based on an award-winning novel by Jane Smiley from 1991. The film stars Jessica Lange , Michelle Pfeiffer , Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards .
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Farmer Larry Cook, who lives in Iowa, wants to give his farm to his daughters Ginny, Rose and Caroline. Ginny and Rose are pleased, but attorney Caroline has doubts. When the women visit their father, he doesn't want to see Caroline.
From now on bigger and bigger wounds open and the apparent family idyll breaks under the whims of the despotic father. Incest, suicide, jealousy and affairs - the Cook family seems at the end of their tether.
Eventually the increasingly confused and paranoid Larry goes to court to get the farm back into his care. He is supported by his youngest daughter Caroline; but the other side wins, whereupon Larry decompensates completely. A bitter struggle by Rose and Ginny for respect and retribution now determines the lives of the sisters, who are overtaken by their past after all these years. Because both of them were abused as children by their father. Eventually Ginny and Rose leave home; Ginny takes a job as a waitress and is visited one last time by her friend Ty Smith before he leaves the area; Rose, who has two children, buys an apartment but falls ill and dies after making Ginny promise to firstly take care of the children and secondly to tell Caroline about the dark side of her father. Ginny takes Rose's children in, but breaks the second promise, knowing that Caroline would not believe her. She leaves her childhood home for good; it is sold to an agricultural company and razed to the ground.
The story is based on William Shakespeare's "King Lear" , who also wants to divide his kingdom among his three daughters. In addition, the film names are alliterations to the name to "King Lear": L arry ↔ L ear, C ook ↔ K ing, G inny ↔ G oneril, R ose ↔ R egan and C aroline ↔ C ordelia.
Reviews
Foreign language reviews
James Berardinelli compared the film on ReelViews with the film Green Tomatoes , describing the characters as "strong" and "believable". He also praised Jocelyn Moorhouse's directorial work and the portrayal of Jessica Lange. He described Jennifer Jason Leigh's play as "less-than-impressive", although this should be due to her role.
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of September 19, 1997 that the film would take some elements of the plot from the play King Lear by William Shakespeare , but not its depth. He would adopt the common stereotypes that men and fathers should be bad. Ebert criticized that none of the characters were sympathetic and that Ginny was too much in the center of the story. He described the representations of Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer in the common scenes as "luminous".
German-language reviews
The week described the film as "shallow" and compared it to a "soap opera". TV Movie 13/1998 praised the performances of the actors, especially those of Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer. The film was described as "ambitious" and "successful". Cinema 7/1998 praised the play of the three female leading actresses. TV Spielfilm 13/1998 described the film as "ambitious" and "sincere". TV hearing and seeing 24/1998 described the performance of the actors as “great” and the film as “successful” and “powerful”.
The lexicon of international films said: “A family drama carried by two excellent leading actresses, which is vaguely based on Shakespeare's tragedy" King Lear ". The generational conflicts are overloaded with too many problems, so that the film penetrates below the surface of mainstream entertainment in just a few moments. "
Awards
Jessica Lange was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1998 . Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Michelle Pfeiffer won a prize at the Festival del Cinema Sentimentale e Melò in Verona in 1999 .
backgrounds
The producer Michelle Pfeiffer wanted to engage Paul Newman first for the role of Larry Cook , but he turned down the role.
Web links
- A Thousand Acres in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A Thousand Acres at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert
- ^ A thousand morning ( memento from June 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon
- ↑ A thousand acres. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .