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Plot: This well-acted, sweeping herstorical epic focuses on the lives of three women, beginning in 1853. China Beach's Dana Delany is Sarah, the family matriarch, whose little sister Euphemia...( read more read more... ) (a delightful and empathetic Tina Majorino) has been living with her best friend, Georgia (beautiful Rachael Leigh Cook), and Georgia's parents (Michael York, Julie Carmen) on a large, bucolic Georgia plantation. After the sisters' father dies, Sarah's husband, upstanding Texas Ranger Bartlett (Powers Boothe), takes "Pheemy" down to Peach Tree, Texas, to live with him and Sarah.

Pheemy and Georgia begin a correspondence chronicling their divergent lives. As Pheemy and her family work their farm and battle Santa Ana and hostile Indians, indulged Georgia is coming to terms with her family's greatest secret: she is one-quarter Native American. Majorino and Cook are excellent in their demanding roles and offer a challenge for their adult counterparts (Annabeth Gish as Pheemy, Angelina Jolie as Georgia). This film, originally a TV miniseries, is an earnest attempt to depict the difficult--and often tragic--role women were compelled to endure during this historically rich but phenomenally difficult time. True Women has plenty of action, but relationships, politics, and grim reality are the true focus, as issues of sexuality, prejudice, human rights, and of course slavery are eagerly examined in the frontier setting. The sensitive should be forewarned: it seems like there is a death every five minutes. --N.F. Mendoza

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  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 12, 2008
    very long movie, 2 parts, but pretty good, it seems like a movie your american heritage/ history teacher would have you watch for 3 or 4 days
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 4, 2008
    EXCELLENT~~! I recommend this to all my girlfriends if yer into such stories as Anne of Green Gables or Janette Oake's books.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    March 21, 2008
    SO powerful. women back then had incredible strength. two dynamic different views of life on the froniet. didn't think i'd like this movie as much as i do.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    February 4, 2008
    This was really an enjoyable and powerful film depicting the ability of women to stand up in the face of nearly every hardship that could occur. The epic look of the film is sweeping, and time flies by while watching it. Viewers will find themselves caring about what happens to the characters, and maybe shed a few tears along the way.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 23, 2007
    if u watch this movie if ur a guy watch it with a chic if u a chic watch it wit a guy some sceens are really sad but it is all really good.
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 4, 2007
    I couldn't watch more than 30 mins of this due to the graphic racism toward Native Americans. Very good acting from strong women.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    September 30, 2007
    I saw this as a 2-part on TV recently. It was rather long as TV films tend to be but it was good. For Angelina fans though, she doesn't play to big a part in this until the second half but the whole film should be seen to understand the plot. Good history film.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 21, 2007
    Beautiful movie. At first i didnt think i would be into an old time setting kind of movie but i really enjoyed this film.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    January 24, 2007
    Extremely powerful. With the men off fighting the women have to survive on their own. Its not as easy as it sounds.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    December 31, 2006
    its about 3 different women. its totally original. the actors in the movie were the best. tina majoirino who was in napoleon dynamite was in this and she was awesome. its really a good film for women!
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    September 25, 2006
    This is a definite must see on the issues that women of the west had to endure and survie. "Whoever said that it was safer to be off the battle field was never a WOMAN"
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    September 25, 2006
    This is the first time I remeber seeing Angelina Jolie in a movie. It's a fairly good tv miniseries.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 14, 2006
    I would have realy liked this movie except it was soooo long and almost everyone died. Overall it was kind of depressing.

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