Filmography › Jane Smiley
All the books by Jane Smiley adapted to cinema and television, ranked
Married dentists David and Dana Hurst, parents to three children, find their relationship strained when David suspects Dana of infidelity. Coping with the emotional turmoil, David starts engaging in imagined conversations with a discontented patient. The family’s stress escalates as they all fall ill with the flu.
Upon the retirement of an aging father, he bequeaths the prosperous family farm to his three daughters. However, this seemingly generous gesture sets off a chain reaction of explosive events that loom over the family, posing a threat to their unity and potentially tearing them apart forever.