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Holistic Guidance - Sarah Plain And Tall
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Starring: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Jon DeVries
Directed By: Glenn Jordan
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302290677
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302290678
Label: Republic Pictures
Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Republic Pictures
Release Date: 1995-03-21
Running Time: 98
Studio: Republic Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1991-02-03
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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Summary: 8 year old kids's review of Sarah, Plain and Tall
Comment: 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 home. He dresses up and makes his hair very slick and shiny.
Sarah Wheaton makes herself at home with the Wittings. She helps clean the house. She goes and picks wild flowers with Caleb. They gather paintbrush, clover, prairie violets, roses, and bride's bonnet. She cuts Caleb's and Jacob's hair, then she braids Anna's long hair. She teaches Caleb and Anna how to float in the cow pond and they have fun. At night, all of them go to the barn to slide down the tall hay pile, just like the dunes in Maine.
Caleb and Anna love Sarah and hope she will stay. Caleb is six and really loves Sarah. Caleb cried when Sarah comes back from driving the wagon because he thinks she was leaving them. Anna is ten and helps with most of the housework. She is also worried that Sarah will leave.
Sarah misses Maine but she is happy with the Wittings. She says she will always miss her old home but she will miss the Wittings more if she leaves. She talks about wanting to drive the wagon. The neighbors come to help with the plowing and meet Sarah. Later Sarah and Jacob get married.
The book Sarah, Plain and Tall makes me joyful when Jacob finds a wife to marry. I like when Sarah, Caleb, Anna, and Jacob slide down the hay pile. Do you like fictional story about family life during the Pioneer times? If so, you will like this book.
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Summary: Wonderful book!
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Not for fourth graders...
Comment: 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...
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Summary: freedom writers
Comment: 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 the kids & her new husbean for the first time
but she allready missed the sea & sand dun's then papa had & idea so he went to the barn & mad e a hay dun & her & the kides had a fun time & thay lived happly ever after I recomed this book because it's easy & a great mstory for younger kids
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Summary: Sarah,plain and tall
Comment: 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 &mack an hay dune & she slides down it withnthe kids & thay are all happy & she macks a bounch of pitchers of the country & colors of the sea & that macks her happy & she stays & thay live happly ever after I recomen this book becauseb it's easy & a great story for kides from 5th-7th grades
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