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Abundant Acreage Available

  • 2017
  • TV-PG
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
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Amy Ryan in Abundant Acreage Available (2017)
On a fifty acre tobacco farm in North Carolina, Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse (Terry Kinney) bury the remains of their recently deceased father in the middle of the field, in the land that he loved. One week later they find three older men camping in their field. Tracy and Jesse discover the men (Max Gail, Francis Guinan, Steve Coulter) are brothers whose family used to own the farm. They haven't been back in 50 years.
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After their father dies, a middle-aged brother and sister wrestle with legacy and ownership when three brothers, whose family farmed the land for generations, return after 50 years.After their father dies, a middle-aged brother and sister wrestle with legacy and ownership when three brothers, whose family farmed the land for generations, return after 50 years.After their father dies, a middle-aged brother and sister wrestle with legacy and ownership when three brothers, whose family farmed the land for generations, return after 50 years.

  • Director
    • Angus MacLachlan
  • Writer
    • Angus MacLachlan
  • Stars
    • Steve Coulter
    • Max Gail
    • Francis Guinan
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    359
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    • Director
      • Angus MacLachlan
    • Writer
      • Angus MacLachlan
    • Stars
      • Steve Coulter
      • Max Gail
      • Francis Guinan
    • 10User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
    • 68Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

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    9hylandish

    Land has no author.

    This film asks us to consider the multiple narratives held, transformed and given by the land. While we try to demonstrate ownership, or declare our freedom, through our own stories about a place, none of us can defend or maintain our boundaries for very long. With fine acting, a beautiful score and a well-considered but unadorned presentation, Abundant Acreage Available is an opportunity for recalibration through reflection on our common destiny. Highly recommended as an antidote to the Hollywood blockbuster!
    1marialucgom

    Terribly script buried in a beautiful setting

    The best actor cannot revive a dying plot, sterile and hopeless.
    4westsideschl

    A Story Never Fulfilled

    This story concept had potential, i.e. one possibility was older scamsters/crooks taking advantage of a brother & sister left w/a farm they were raised on and having monetary value unknown to them. Also, that a hard working life on a farm has rewards beyond money. Instead we are left w/a lot of arguing; looking at cremated ashes; the ubiquitous smoking scenes in film (didn't make sense here since they would only smoke a couple of times which smokers don't do). No signs of cigs anywhere else. The real negatives are: 1. The male brother dominates (makes final decisions) over his supposedly equal partner sister in the farm. More female submissiveness, and negatively she's displayed losing her cool quite a few times. 2. Brother says, "God determines your life whatever it is to be. Everyday I work to forgive myself, we're only human. I know my Lord forgives me, that's all we can do." This guilt & fatalistic view from religions that life, it's problems & solutions are not in our hands is a quitters belief - there is always something one can do to make the planet & it's inhabitants better off. The easiest is to not be consumer fixated and use the money to improve any & everything.
    10dbgibbins

    What independent film is all about - laughter, tears, dramatic cinematography. Simply beautiful.

    Backed by Scorsese, writer and director Angus Maclachlin shows the brilliance possible in independent film. In Abundant Acreage, MacLachlin creates a cinema-graphically rich portrayal of a multi-generational family whose own comedic tragedy is interrupted by a band of interlopers. Simply beautiful. What an immersive film experience of laughter, tears, and drama is all about. You want every person in America to see this film. (....and then go watch Junebug, MacLaghlin's acclaimed 2005 Drama/Comedy)
    8jtncsmistad

    "Abundant Acreage Available": A Fertile Harvest of First-Rate Acting

    "Abundant Acreage Available" is the kind of movie that is content to take its own sweet time telling its story. There is no particular interest in rushing fast forward from scene to scene at light speed. Or investing any real sense of urgency at all, actually. This is filmmaking done at an expressly intentional pace of leisure and deliberation. Particularly in this "gotta have it five minutes ago" mentality we race through with such fevered freneticism in today's world.

    And it is f-----' wonderful.

    This would quite likely be a whole different review if this domestic drama were left to the devices of lesser actors. In fact, "Abundant Acreage Available" would almost assuredly have been an excruciating exercise in relentless tedium if that were the unfortunate case. Gratefully, and emphatically, it certainly is not.

    Amy Ryan, Max Gail, Steve Coulter, Terry Kinney and Francis Guinan are uniformly exquisite in bringing their respective remarkable characters to life. In so doing they give us genuine multi-dimensional human beings who resonate with understated yet resoundingly affecting fragility of both body and soul.

    Writer, Director and Co-Producer Angus MacLachlan has crafted a beautiful chronicle of family, love and loss (with a big boost from Directorial legend Martin Scorsese, who Exec Produces here). MacLachlan's choice to use a generations-old North Carolina tobacco farm as the sole setting for "Abundant Acreage Available" brilliantly serves to softly amplify the pervading themes of isolation, loneliness and quiet desperation which so movingly saturate every single scene.

    And, hey. Listen up all you mysterious voters of the confoundingly clandestine Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Amy Ryan gets nominated for "Best Actress". Okay? And Max Gail is up for a "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar. Got it? Alas, one can only hope. Each of these vaunted veterans have richly earned such lofty reward. Regrettably, it is unlikely that either Ryan or Gail will be officially recognized for their stunningly authentic performances. And while that is truly sad and indefensible, it certainly does not diminish the peerless quality of their work.

    And finally, if you will be so kind as to indulge, I simply can NOT sign off until I get this out of my system.

    Amy Ryan has the smile of a goddess.

    Lamentably it was not on display near enough in this production, as her personification of Tracy is inherently solemn and stoic in nature. Still, when those precious few frames were delightfully illuminated by Ms. Ryan's devastatingly delicious grin, it was the stuff of pure magic, that from which springs enchantment in......well......what else? Abundance.

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      In Memory of Clyde Fowler- Clyde was a most excellent art teacher at the University of North Carolina School of The Arts. He was a great supporter of the arts around Winston-Salem NC and a very good friend of the writer/director of this film. He is sorely missed by many.
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      Hans: It's a fantastic thing to be no me.

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    • Release date
      • April 20, 2017 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Αχανής έκταση για πούλημα
    • Filming locations
      • East Bend, North Carolina, USA(Farm House)
    • Production company
      • Abundant Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 20m(80 min)
    • Color
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