![]() ![]() After Larry divides his farm among his daughters, he begins to crumble, quickly turning into a glowering, raging old crank, wandering off (naturally) into a storm. But there is a sense of a gathering storm, forces looming out of control. In the film, the "Lear" parallels aren't as obvious as they are in the book. ![]() Her King Lear was renamed Larry Cook (played in the movie by great, gray Jason Robards) while faithful daughter Cordelia dissolves into Caroline Cook (Leigh), the one daughter who doesn't live on the farm. (The film's exteriors were shot in Rochelle, Ill., dressed to look like Iowa.) And she told the story not from Lear's viewpoint, but from the slant of the two "selfish" sisters, Goneril and Regan, who become Ginny Cook Smith (Lange) and Rose Cook Lewis (Pfeiffer). "A Thousand Acres" the movie is, in many ways, a mistake. ![]()
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