A Map of the World

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A Map of the World
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2hrs 5min
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1999
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Polygram USA Video
Synopsis: In this contemporary drama, Sigourney Weaver plays a woman out of her element and at the end of her rope. Alice Goodwin is a wife and mother who finds that the pressures of her life are starting to become more than she can bear. Alice works part-time as a school nurse while her husband Howard (David Strathairn) runs the family farm; they both look after their two daughters. Alice, who wasn't raised in farm country, still feels like an outsider, and she embraces a cynical, sarcastic humor as a defense ... Full Synopsis
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This awkward and truncated adaptation of Jane Hamilton's 1994 best-seller nonetheless boasts fine performances from David Strathairn, Julianne Moore, and Sigourney Weaver -- each actor doing what he or she does best. Weaver's turn as the urban refugee turned rural housewife falsely accused of sexual molestation and murder recalls her strong yet on-the-edge characters in both Death and the Maiden and ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Alice Goodwin
Theresa Collins
Howard Goodwin
Dan Collins
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