A deeply-felt variation of the classic struggle of the working man versus the forces of government. Iowa farmers, Jewell and Gil Ivy (Jessica Lange and Sam Shephard) work a poor farm held by their family for generations. Shephard delivers a performance of immense integrity in his portrayal of a man humiliated because he is unable to provide for his family. The screenplay reflects recent events in the US where struggling farmers took on government loans to expand and wound up faced with foreclosure on their properties.
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ACMI Identifier
304453
Language
English
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → United States - Social conditions
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)