A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres

Best friends. Bitter rivals. Sisters.

1997105 min5.7 / 10

A dark family drama about three sisters whose bonds fracture under the weight of inheritance, betrayal, and buried trauma on an Iowa farm.

The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.

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