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Screen cap from promotional trailer
Adaptation of
A Thousand Acres
1991
single work
novel
Issue Details:
First known date:
1997...
1997
A Thousand Acres
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Film Details - Propaganda Films ; Touchstone Pictures ; Prairie Films , 1997
Producers:
Marc Abraham, Lynn Arost, Steve Golin, Kate Guinzburg, and Sigurjon Sighvatsson (producers).
Armyan Bernstein and Thomas A. Bliss (executive producers).
Production Companies:
Prairie Films (Touchstone Pictures presents / in association with Propaganda Films).
Director of Photography:
Tak Fujimoto.
Editors:
Maryann Brandon.
Production Designers:
Dan Davis.
Music:
Richard Hartley.
Cast:
Including Michelle Pfeiffer (Rose Cook Lewis), Jessica Lange (Ginny Cook Smith), Jason Robards (Larry Cook), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Caroline Cook), Colin Firth (Jess Clark), Keith Carradine (Ty Smith), Kevin Anderson (Peter Lewis), Pat Hingle (Harold Clark), John Carroll Lynch (Ken LaSalle), Anne Pitoniak (Mary Livingstone), Vyto Ruginis (Charles Carter), Michelle Williams (Pammy), Elisabeth Moss (Linda), Ray Toler (Marv Carson), Kenneth Tigar (Doctor), Steve Key (Loren Clark), Dan Conway (Henry Dodge), Stan Cahill (Frank), Ray Baker (Wallace Crockett), Beth Grant (Roberta), and Andrea Nittoli (Waitress).
Release Dates:
Premiered in the US on 19 September 1997.
Released in Australia 7 May 1998.
Location:
- Filmed largely in Illinois, USA.
Post Production:
Todd-AO Studios (post-production sound).
Awards:
- Verona Love Screens Film Festival, Best Actress (won), 1999.
- Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (nomination), 1998.
Settings:
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