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Adapted from
  
Duration
  

Language
  
English

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Family

Film series
  
Sarah, Plain and Tall

Country
  
United States

Sarah, Plain and Tall (film) movie poster

Release date
  
February 3, 1991

Based on
  
Sarah, Plain and Tall byPatricia MacLachlan

Writer
  
Cast
  
(Sarah Wheaton), (Jacob Witting), (Anna Witting),
Malgorzata Zajaczkowska
(Maggie Grant),
Jon DeVries
(Matthew Grant),
Chris Bell
(Caleb Witting)

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Sarah, Plain and Tall is an American television film in the Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series. It first aired in February 1991. It is the first of three installments in the film adaptation of Patricia MacLachlan's novel of the same name. Location shots were filmed in Grand Island, NE for the town, church, and railway scenes.

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Plot summary

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The story is set in Kansas in 1910. Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife during childbirth around six years earlier, finds that the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. He advertises in the newspaper for a mail-order bride. Sarah Wheaton, from Maine, responds describing herself as "plain and tall", and travels out to become his wife. Upon arriving at the farm, she proves to have good sense, an interest in helping with even the most physically demanding chores, and a quiet, warm personality. But she grows homesick: miles and miles of Kansas farmland prove no substitute for Maine's ocean vistas. She is under no obligation to marry Jacob and is free to leave if she so desires; much of the story's suspense depends on whether or not she will decide to stay.

Cast

  • Glenn Close as Sarah Wheaton
  • Christopher Walken as Jacob Witting
  • Lexi Randall as Anna Witting
  • Christopher Bell as Caleb Witting
  • Malgorzata Zajaczkowska as Maggie Grant (as Margaret Sophie Stein)
  • Jon DeVries as Matthew Grant
  • James Rebhorn as William Wheaton
  • Woody Watson as Jess Stearns
  • Betty Laird as Mrs. Parkley
  • Marc Penney as Ticket Agent
  • Kara Beth Taylor as Rose
  • Reception

    Generally well received by the public, the film was considered "Fresh" at Rotten Tomatoes with 80% approval based on five reviews. It was nominated for nine Emmys in 1991, it won one, for "Outstanding Editing for a Miniseries or a Special - Single Camera Production". It was also nominated for two Golden Globes.

    References

    Sarah, Plain and Tall (film) Wikipedia
    Sarah, Plain and Tall (film) IMDb Sarah, Plain and Tall (film) themoviedb.org