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A Thousand Acres (1998)

UK THEATRICAL RELEASE: Jun 19th 1998 TOTAL FILM REVIEW 
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A Thousand Acres, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jane Smiley, transplants Shakespeare's King Lear into a modern American Gothic landscape. You can look at it two ways: it's either a deeply serious and moving drama, at pains to realistically portray the emotional problems of a self-destructing family; or at best, it's a suicidally depressing, monumentally overwrought cinematic carbuncle which should have been shot at birth.

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  • Certificate 15

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