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Far and Away (1992)

★ 6.8 · 1,296 ratings on TMDB

What they needed was a country big enough for their dreams.

Far and Away poster★ 6.8

A young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner cheated by her family’s hostile land takeovers. They escape to America, ready to take advantage of the 19th century Oklahoma land rush.

DirectorRon Howard
CastBarbara Babcock, Colm Meaney, Cyril Cusack, Douglas Gillison, Eileen Pollock, Michelle Johnson
GenresAdventure, Drama, Romance, Western
The emergence reading

Far and Away keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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