Cloud County Persuasion

It's 1947, and English war bride Marian Parker wonders if she married the wrong Yank after two years of waiting for him and a 5,000-mile voyage from home. Marian's mother-in-law, the spiky Hazel Anna Parker, thinks so and complicates everything.

And everything in this new land is different.

Marian's husband James assures her that farming in Oklahoma with his parents is only a way station to their new life in California. He promises they'll soon have a little house in a town by the sea--a hous...