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American Dream (1990)
Directed by Barbara Kopple
“The award-winning film of American lives, American courage, and the...”
Documentary · 1h 38m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Barbara Kopple
- Director of Photography
- Peter Gilbert, Kevin Keating, Hart Perry, Mark Petersson, Mathieu Roberts
- Original Music Composer
- Michael Small
- Editor
- Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, Lawrence Silk
- Producer
- Arthur Cohn, Barbara Kopple
Details
- Release date
- 1990-10-06
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- Cabin Creek Films, Catholic Communication Campaign, Channel 4 Television
- Box office
- $269,823