East of Eden (TV Mini-series)

USA 1981, 480 minutes
Dir. Harvey Hart
Rating: [M]
Genres: Classics, Television

Feat. Timothy Bottoms, Jane Seymour, Bruce Boxleitner, Hart Bochner, Warren Oates, Lloyd Bridges, Karen Allen, Richard Masur, M. Emmet Walsh, Anne Baxter, Grace Zabriskie

Synopsis: Over six hours long, this sumptuous Emmy and Golden Globe winning mini-series, adapts Steinbeck’s quintessential novel "more fully and faithfully than any other adaptation". Tracing three generations of the Trask family, from the Civil War through to World War I, this timeless saga deals with the nature of good and evil, the origin of sin, and the hope of reconciliation.