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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: A&E EAN: 0733961105995 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: A&E Home Video (New REleaset) Manufacturer: A&E Home Video (New REleaset) Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: A&E Home Video (New REleaset) Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 29, 2008 Running Time: 234 minutes Studio: A&E Home Video (New REleaset) Sales Rank: 17871 MPN: AAAE105990 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field gives an acclaimed performance in the title role of the inspiring Emmy-nominated miniseries A WOMAN OF INDEPENDENT MEANS. From a young age Bess Steed Garner has always known how to arrange other people s lives to suit her own needs. After her beloved husband dies suddenly of influenza, Bess is faced with the difficult challenges of keeping both his business and her family intact. This celebrated miniseries spans seven decades in the life of a woman determined to make her own decisions during a time when women s rights were limited and independence was discouraged. Based on the perennially bestselling novel by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey that sold over a million copies worldwide, this moving adaptation of A WOMAN OF INDEPENDENT MEANS provides a compelling portrait of one woman s strength, courage, and defiance. DVD Features: Cast Biographies; Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Bibliography Amazon.com: This absorbing three-part series begins as Bess (Sally Field, fresh from Forrest Gump), a proper Dallas lady, marries Rob (Ghost's Tony Goldwyn), her childhood sweetheart. All should be sunshine and roses, except Bess finds marriage unfulfilling. Rob, as she puts it, "has a purpose." Despite her roles as wife and mother, Bess feels she lacks one of her own (14-year age difference aside, Field and Goldwyn make a convincing couple). Rob’s mother (My Left Foot's Brenda Fricker) joins the household before the arrival of their third child, but Mother Steed remains in Texas when they move to St. Louis during the First World War. As Bess's fortunes rise and fall, she communicates her feelings through the letters she writes to friends and relations (Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey's 1978 novel follows the same structure). When fate takes Rob out of the picture, Bess returns to Texas, where two different suitors step in, the courtly Arthur Fineman (Ali's Ron Silver) and brash Sam Garner (Breaker Morant's Jack Thompson). No man, however, will ever take the place of her first love--or her children. Filmed on location in Galveston and Houston and directed by the omnivorous Robert Greenwald (Xanadu, Outfoxed), A Woman of Independent Means illustrates its title character's observation that "one life is simply not enough for all the lessons there are to learn." Fortunately, the Oscar-winning Field makes the journey one worth taking. In addition, costume designer Julie Weiss won an Emmy for her richly detailed work. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Woman of Independent MeansThis interesting film follows the life of a lady from Texas from her very early years in the late 19th century through her passing in the late 1960s. While the title intimates that the character has wealth, the true wealth of the character comes from her spirit in overcoming advertisies, the loss of a child, death of her husband while a young woman, raising her remaining children during the depression, etc. Acting throughout the film is very good and thanks to the good writing of the best-selling ... Read More Rating: - PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN OF UNFAILING COURAGE & SPIRIT.I loved this miniseries. Sally Field was superb as a woman who had to meet challenges from the depression to the problems of her modern day grandchildren. I have always loved Sally Field - Steel Magnolias, Flying Nun, Mrs. Doubtfire, Brothers & Sisters, etc. She exceeded expectations in the role of Bess Steed Garner in this wonderful A & E presentation. Bess Steed grew up in a wealthy family. She passionately loved the man she married from their days in the fourth grade. Her ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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