American Dream (1990)
1h 38m
Running Time
October 6, 1990Release Date
American Dream (1990)
1h 38m
Running Time
October 6, 1990Release Date
Plot.
When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage drags on and the strikers face losing everything, friends become enemies, families are divided and the very future of this typical mid American town is threatened.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Barbara Kopple
Director / Sound Recordist / Producer
Mark Stuart Lane
Production Design
Peter Gilbert
Director of Photography
Kevin Keating
Director of Photography
Lee Dichter
Sound Mixer
Cathy Caplan
Editor / Co-Director
Thomas Haneke
Editor / Co-Director
Jesse Jackson
Self
Details.
Release DateOctober 6, 1990
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Content RatingPG-13
Box Office$269,823
Genres
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Wiki.
American Dream is a 1990 British-American cinéma vérité documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple and co-directed by Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, and Lawrence Silk.
The film recounts the unsuccessful 1985–86 Hormel strike in the heartland of the United States against the Hormel Foods corporation.
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