7/7/2023 0 Comments A thousand acres novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The husbands of the two older daughters, indeed, are written so thinly that when one of them ( Kevin Anderson) kills himself, we're not sure why (until it's belatedly explained) and don't much care, and when the other ( Keith Carradine) goes off to Texas to work on a hog farm, his wife scarcely seems to notice he's gone. The movie repeats the currently fashionable pattern in which men are bad and fathers are the most evil of all there is not a single positive male character in the movie, unless you count the preacher who says grace before the church supper. We are denied even the old man's heartbreaking deathbed scene-that goes to one of the daughters, after her second bout with breast cancer. We are correct, but "A Thousand Acres'' wants only to borrow plot elements of "King Lear,'' not to face up to its essentials. Larry instantly disowns her and later slams a door in her face, and as the other two daughters and their husbands begin running the farm, we figure it's only a matter of time until old Larry is out there in a raging storm, cursing the heavens. ![]() That's fine with Rose ( Michelle Pfeiffer) and Ginny ( Jessica Lange), who are married farm women-but Larry's youngest and most favored daughter, Caroline ( Jennifer Jason Leigh), a lawyer, questions the wisdom of the plan. ![]()
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