American Dream

USA / UK, 1990, 98 min

Directed by:

Barbara Kopple

Cinematography:

Kevin Keating, Hart Perry

Composer:

Michael Small
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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! (official distributor synopsis)

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