Synopsis
A Thousand Acres (1997) can be watched online on iFILM — Jocelyn Moorhouse's American drama adapted from Jane Smiley's Pulitzer-winning novel, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Iowa farmer Larry Cook announces he will divide his thousand-acre property among his three daughters: Ginny, Rose, and Caroline. When Caroline voices doubts, he cuts her out on the spot. The decision cracks open what the family had kept sealed for decades: resentments, silences, damage that nobody named. Pfeiffer and Jennifer Jason Leigh play sisters whose shared past holds far more than their measured exteriors suggest. Jason Robards, Colin Firth, and early appearances from Elizabeth Moss and Michelle Williams complete the cast.
Smiley rewrote King Lear into the geography of the American Midwest — farmland instead of a kingdom, routine instead of spectacle, the same irreversibility. Moorhouse keeps the bitterness intact. Stream A Thousand Acres (1997) online on iFILM.
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