A Thousand Acres

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A Thousand Acres is a 1997 drama film adaptation of Jane Smiley’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, reimagining Shakespeare’s King Lear on a contemporary Iowa farm.

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instanceOf film
awardSourceMaterial Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for the novel A Thousand Acres) NERFINISHED
basedOn A Thousand Acres (novel) NERFINISHED
King Lear NERFINISHED
basedOnWorkAuthor Jane Smiley NERFINISHED
William Shakespeare NERFINISHED
cinematographyBy Lajos Koltai NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Jocelyn Moorhouse NERFINISHED
distributedBy Buena Vista Pictures NERFINISHED
distributorRegion United States theatrical release
editedBy Nicholas Beauman NERFINISHED
genre drama film
hasTheme abuse and trauma
family conflict
inheritance dispute
patriarchy
rural American life
mainCharacter Ginny Cook Smith NERFINISHED
Larry Cook NERFINISHED
Rose Cook Lewis NERFINISHED
medium feature film
musicBy Richard Hartley NERFINISHED
narrativeBasis modern retelling of King Lear
originalLanguage English
producer Arlene Donovan NERFINISHED
Gary Lucchesi NERFINISHED
productionCompany Davis Entertainment NERFINISHED
Touchstone Pictures NERFINISHED
releaseYear 1997
runtimeMinutes 105
screenwriter Jane Smiley NERFINISHED
Laura Jones NERFINISHED
settingEnvironment farm
settingLocation Iowa NERFINISHED
starring Colin Firth NERFINISHED
Jason Robards NERFINISHED
Jennifer Jason Leigh NERFINISHED
Jessica Lange NERFINISHED
Keith Carradine NERFINISHED
Kevin Anderson NERFINISHED
Michelle Pfeiffer NERFINISHED

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