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Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1991 · 98 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Glenn Jordan
- Starring
- Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, James Rebhorn, Lexi Randall, Jon DeVries, Małgorzata Zajączkowska
Widowed farmer Jacob Witting struggles to run his Kansas farm and raise his two children, Anna and Caleb, on his own. He places a newspaper ad for a mail‑order bride, and Sarah Wheaton, a plain and tall woman from Maine, answers. She journeys to Kansas in 1910 to become his wife. As love blossoms between Sarah and the family, she battles homesickness and must decide whether to remain in her new home.
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