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Summary: Sarah, Plain and Tall Trilogy
Review: These three movies are the best. The love and respect the characters have for each other should set an example for all of us. My family has also read the books and we have had many discussions about the problems the family faces. I would highly recommend the books and videos.
Glenn Close and Christopher Walken are terrific together. The emotions and expressions of love are so pronounced. Excellent performances by Chris Bell and Lexi Randell. It is amazing to see the last video, Winter's End, and how the kids are all grown up. Time does march on.
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Summary: Excellent Family Viewing
Review: This is excellent family viewing. It gives one a sense of how tough it was to grow up in the 1800's and early 1900's. People had to work hard for everything, certainly much different than our world where people are pampered by modern-day conveniences.
Glenn Close is one of the great actresses of all time, no question here. If you like Close, check out her excellent performance in "World According to Garp." She is also capable of playing evil as well...in "Fatal Attraction." Watching the Sarah Plain and Tall series is a great way to help your family grow closer together. Jeffrey McAndrew
author of "Our Brown-Eyed Boy"
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Summary: Excellent Family Viewing
Review: This is excellent family viewing. It gives one a sense of how tough it was to grow up in the 1800's and early 1900's. People had to work hard for everything, certainly much different than our world where people are pampered by modern-day conveniences.
Glenn Close is one of the great actresses of all time, no question here. If you like Close, check out her excellent performance in "World According to Garp." She is also capable of playing evil as well...in "Fatal Attraction." Watching the Sarah Plain and Tall series is a great way to help your family grow closer together. Jeffrey McAndrew
author of "Our Brown-Eyed Boy"
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Summary: Glenn Close and Christopher Walken made in heaven!
Review: This trilogy is great viewing on television. Sarah, Plain and Tall was the first, about a woman who comes from Maine to marry a man in Indiana (a mail-order type of thing). When she arrives in Indiana she does not know what to expect, but is pleasantly surprised that the man is quite attractive. She instantly gets along with the little boy, and the little girl takes a little time to get used to her, but the entire family grows to love Sarah, no matter how plain and tall she is. In Skylark, it was more of the same, a continuance of Sarah, Plain and Tall and the trials and tribulations of living in a land where so many bad things can happen: drought, fire, and so on. Sarah takes the children back to Maine with her after the Indiana barn burns to the ground and the drought is so bad because the creek is almost out of water. The little boy, Caleb, puts a glass outside before he leaves Indiana so that when it rains, he will have a glass of water to remember it by. In Maine, the children meet Sarah's aunts, who are all characters in themselves. One of them likes to skinny dip in the moonlight, and Caleb says she looks like a great white fish. It is in this movie that Sarah finds out she is to have a baby. And at the end of the movie when Jacob comes to take Sarah and the children home, because there has been rain in Indiana, Sarah tells Jacob that she wants their child to be born in Indiana. It is very touching, and made tears come to my eyes. In the third, Winter's End, Sarah's little girl is around 5 or 6 years old, and it rounds out the trilogy quite nicely. I'm just wondering what I've seen that little girl in before. I would recommend this entire set of movies to anyone who likes watching historical information, especially that which is based on true stories.
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Summary: An excellent, family-type threesome to see repeatedly!
Review: This trio of movies follows very closely the books by the same author. Sarah answered an ad for someone to "make a difference". She felt a move was necessary and this was, perhaps, her only chance to make a life of her own. She did not expect such a stubborn man, but fell in love with Caleb and Anna. The story was first a children's book, then the movies started, and even we adults can relate to the gentle relationships that formed, the family spirit in times of tragedy, and the antics of being a blended family. I especially liked the fact the movies follow the books so closely up to the point they needed to enhance to complete the time frame. I recommend these 3 videos for warmth, sincerity and easy watching.
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Summary: Sarah plain and tall :Winter's End
Review: Very dissapointed in the quality of this VHS tape.This third installment does not measure up to the first two. Production values very poor.It looks as if the copy I received was made from a copy, picture was not clear and sound was terrible. I am sending this tape back.
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Summary: The best "feel good" movies this past century.
Review: When my husband sits down and watches a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie with me and gets up and says "thats a feel good movie" it has to be good. Glen Close and Christopher Walken were Sarah and Jacob. I was is awe just watching Christopher Bell at his age being such a convincing young actor and Lexi Randall the perfect sister and replacement mother. The Story takes place in 1910 Kansas. Jacob who has been widowed for 6 year places and add for someone to come live with them to "make a difference", which a young woman from Maine Glen Close answers. Young Anna (Lexi Randall) does not want a new mother but Caleb (Christopher Bell) falls in love with Sarahs letters before she arrives. Not ever reading the books the movies were excellent. I found only one discrepancy in the second and third movies where in Skylark Jacob talks about how he and his brothers and sisters would talk about better times but mostly owning there own land. In Winters end, Jacobs speaks as if he is an only child. Other than that, these are must see, must own videos that you will watch over many times and enjoy introducing them to your grandchildren.
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Summary: The best "feel good" movies this past century.
Review: When my husband sits down and watches a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie with me and gets up and says "thats a feel good movie" it has to be good. Glen Close and Christopher Walken were Sarah and Jacob. I was is awe just watching Christopher Bell at his age being such a convincing young actor and Lexi Randall the perfect sister and replacement mother. The Story takes place in 1910 Kansas. Jacob who has been widowed for 6 year places and add for someone to come live with them to "make a difference", which a young woman from Maine Glen Close answers. Young Anna (Lexi Randall) does not want a new mother but Caleb (Christopher Bell) falls in love with Sarahs letters before she arrives. Not ever reading the books the movies were excellent. I found only one discrepancy in the second and third movies where in Skylark Jacob talks about how he and his brothers and sisters would talk about better times but mostly owning there own land. In Winters end, Jacobs speaks as if he is an only child. Other than that, these are must see, must own videos that you will watch over many times and enjoy introducing them to your grandchildren.
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