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      Pioneer Woman

      TV-PG 1973 1 hr. 18 min. Western List
      Reviews 0% 50+ Ratings Audience Score In this 19th-century drama, an American family from the Northeast heads to Wyoming in search of a better life, only to face tragedy and hardship. Maggie Sergent (Joanna Pettet), the hard-driving matriarch of the clan, is totally unprepared when her husband, John (William Shatner), is murdered. Left to handle the farm on her own, Maggie must choose whether to stay in Wyoming and run the farm with her children, or head back to the East Coast and the life she knows. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Hilariously bad TV movie that features William Shatner (in shameless-ham mode) as the patriarch of a pioneer family traveling across the plains, which includes child actress Helen Hunt in her film debut. Imagine if Ed Wood had made "Little House on the Prairie" and you get a pretty good picture of this film. Plus, you get to see the Shat with a big masculine mustache! Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This was a made for TV movie that came out a couple of years after Star Trek was canceled. William Shatner was taking anything he could get to pay his bills. It's a story of a homesteader going west with his family after the Civil War. The movie was cheap and used a lot of stock footage of trains and wagon trains. It was supposed to take place in Indiana, Nebraska and Wyoming. They filmed it in Canada and there were way too many hills to be Nebraska or Wyoming. The wheat fields looked like tall grass. Wheat is green until harvest. In this movie the "wheat" is always yellow. When wheat turns yellow it's time to harvest. The only action in the movie is the wild fire towards the end of the movie. The movie is just a lot of over acting and scenes of people on wagons. In a way it's a non-violent version of Shane. The local rancher isn't a bad guy and actually tries to help the farmers. He just knows that you can't grow wheat in Wyoming. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis In this 19th-century drama, an American family from the Northeast heads to Wyoming in search of a better life, only to face tragedy and hardship. Maggie Sergent (Joanna Pettet), the hard-driving matriarch of the clan, is totally unprepared when her husband, John (William Shatner), is murdered. Left to handle the farm on her own, Maggie must choose whether to stay in Wyoming and run the farm with her children, or head back to the East Coast and the life she knows.
      Director
      Buzz Kulik
      Executive Producer
      Edward S. Feldman
      Screenwriter
      Suzanne Clauser
      Production Co
      Filmways Television
      Rating
      TV-PG
      Genre
      Western
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 17, 2017