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Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1999)
anachronistic and shameful
This film claimed to tell the "true" story of Laura Ingalls Wilder. What it really did was turn the author's life and into TV-movie melodrama. The few bits that were from the author's biography and other writings, not from the nine books, were distorted almost beyond recognition in a desperate attempt to get ratings. It also ignored many of the basic facts of life in Victorian times. I watched this film with my jaw hanging open in disbelief. Sorry, but the endless repetition of the word "backtracking" and the use of the real name Bouchie (instead of Brewster, which Wilder used in the book to protect the guilty) do not a "true story" make.
Do yourself a favor--check a decent biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder out of the library instead of watching this travesty, an insult to the Ingalls and Wilder families and to all of Wilder's fans through the years.