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Summary: heartland disappointment
Review: My wife had read the book and she told me a lot about it. The movie was a complete and total disapointment. It doesn't even come close the the focus of the book. By itself, it isn't even a good movie. I'm sorry I ever bought the DVD.
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Summary: Stays with you
Review: This is the kind of film you can't stop thinking about the next day. It is not "Hollywood" at all, so be prepared. It is a film about the stark realities of life on a Wyoming ranch. I bought the DVD and appreciated it because it has a commentary track which explains each scene. Its based on the letters of a real woman. The actors are so real, the story so true that it seems almost like a documentary. Its like you're simply watching real people live thier lives; washing clothes, branding cattle, talking about how to survive the coming winter. Great! Be aware, there are a few grizzly scenes with animals that might bother you, but thats what fast forward is for. Give it a try!
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Summary: Healthy Relationship
Review: This movie shows a good example of a healthy relationship between two independent adults. This model should be shown to all adolescents, so that they can have a good basis for comparison as to what a relationship should be; not the drivel that hollywood and the television feed them. It is powerful and moving, but most of all it is a textbook case of morality, hard work, survival, and how love can grow anywhere.
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Summary: Nitty gritty dirt land
Review: Torn and Ferrell star in an authentic depiction of the harshness of homesteading about a hundred years ago in Wyoming. (It's still a tough place to ranch.) It's exciting and sad and sometimes blissfully joyful. A great movie I hadn't seen in a long time, but had been looking for for years to buy. Based on a series of letters written by the homesteading woman in the early years of this century, the film tells a story far more grim than the determined cheerfulness of Elinore Pruitt Stewart does in "Letters of a Woman Homesteader." Both stories are true.
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