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starring: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Jon DeVriesdirected by: Glenn Jordan
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302290677
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302290678
Label: Republic Pictures
Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Republic Pictures
Release Date: March 21, 1995
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 211
Studio: Republic Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: February 03, 1991
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The most-watched made-for-television movie of the 1990s (50 million viewers upon first broadcast in 1991), this fine adaptation of Patricia MacLachlan's novel stars Glenn Close as Sarah, a Maine schoolteacher who responds to a Kansas farmer's newspaper ad seeking a bride. Set in 1910, the story follows Sarah's trial run as stepmother to the children of the widowed Jacob Witting (Christopher Walken). The tough part of the experiment is the conflicting expectations the would-be couple have over Sarah's role in the household. The kids, too, have their doubts about a substitute for their mother, and Jacob isn't ready, emotionally, for a new beginning. But in short order the strong-willed Sarah brings happiness and vitality into the house, and love and understanding eventually blossom between the two lonely adults. Everything is right about this Hallmark production, from a bright script cowritten by MacLachlan to Glenn Jordan's sensitive direction and a pair of first-rate leads making every moment worth watching. A wholesome tale from the heartland, this is a good movie for any viewing situation, from an audience of one to an entire family. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - 8 year old kids's review of Sarah, Plain and Tall
The story of Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLaclan is a pioneer fiction about a family who needs a mother and a wife, and a lady who needs a home. It is sad, funny, happy, scary, exciting, and keeps me guessing.
Jacob Witting needs a helpful, hardworking wife and a mother for his young children Anna and Caleb. He puts an ad for a wife in the newspaper. He receives a response from Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton of Maine. In the early spring, Jacob goes to the train station to bring Sarah ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful book!
This was one of the selected literature books for our home-school curriculum. We were delighted with this lovely book. It inspired us to watch the movie and order the rest of the books in the series. Very interesting story line.
Rating:  - Not for fourth graders...
I read this in fourth grade and I don't think I was mature enough to read it. As soon as I found out that Sarah was not beautiful for some reason or another I thought that she was not worth paying attention to, so therefore I got zilch from this book. It wasn't even that I was an immature fourth grader, I was already reading adult books that were 400 pages long. So I just thought I'd put my two cents in...
Rating: - freedom writers
sarah,plain&tall
this book is about a woman named sarah who lives by the sea but planing to gets married to a farmer .But befor she can do that she haves to move all her stuff out of the house that she's living in on the beach then hop on a train & head to the country
with her cat seal & as she arrives at the train station
she is greeted by a wagon watch tacks her the rest of the way & when she arrives at the farm house she meets ... Read More
Rating: - Sarah,plain and tall
this book is about a woman who live on a beach & gets a offer from a man who is asking her to marry him but she lives by the sea & he lives in the country &she has a cat & he has a dog but she packs up all her stuff & heads for the country by train with her cat seal & when she arrives at the train station she is mett up by a wagion witch tacks her the rest of the way& when she gets there she allready misses the sea & the sand dunes so papa has anideal & he go to the barne ... Read More
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