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Sarah Plain and Tall Emmy and Golden Globe winner Glenn Close (The Lion in Winter) and Oscar winner Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can) star in the cherished Emmy award winning adaptation of the bestseller by Patricia MacLachlan.
Set in the early 1900’s, Maine schoolteacher, Sarah Wheaton (Close), answers advertisement for a ""mail-order bride," and travels to the prairies of Kansas. Her goal— to make a difference in the lives of a widower named Jacob Witting (Walken) and his two motherless children. Getting Jacob to move on from the memory of his late wife, Sarah opens the door to his lonely heart and takes their family over the threshold to a bright new beginning.
Although Sarah takes to the duties of caring for the Witting family with steadfast devotion and earnest compassion, she has to overcome the children’s distrust and the conflicting expectations over Sarah's role in the household. 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. She will prove to the Witting family that life and love do go on.
The first of in the trilogy of highly rated Sarah movies from the Hallmark Hall of Fame collection, Sarah, Plain and Tall is a timeless classic for all ages.
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