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5.2/10   167 votes
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Director:
Jennifer Warren
Writers (WGA):
Carolyn Chute (novel)
Bill Phillips (screenplay)
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Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 nominations more
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Don't Judge my Intelligence by the Amount of Stars I Gave this Horrid Film. more (3 total)

Cast

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Martha Plimpton ... Earlene Pomerleau

Kelly Lynch ... Roberta Bean

Rutger Hauer ... Reuben Bean
Patrick McGaw ... Beal Bean
Richard Sanders ... Lee Pomerleau
Lance Robinson ... Young Beal Bean
Rae Adams ... Young Earlene Pomerleau
Ariana Lamon-Anderson ... Bonnie Loo
Michael MacRae ... Cole Deveraux
James Gervasi ... Pa Bean
Sue Ann Gilfillan ... Aunt Hoover
Susanna Burney ... Merry Merry
Marjorie Nelson ... Gram Pomerleau
Jim Chiros ... Loren
Todd Moore ... Pete
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Runtime:
99 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Ultra Stereo
Certification:
Iceland:12 | Australia:R | USA:R
Company:
American Playhouse more

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9 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
Don't Judge my Intelligence by the Amount of Stars I Gave this Horrid Film., 10 March 2005
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Author: dysfunctionjunction from South Dakota, United States

Okay. This is probably one of my favorite books of all time. I can't even begin to explain how they screw this up in the movie. I sat down, EXCITED and watched this film, and got up DEPRESSED and wanting to cry. It wasn't as if I was depressed by the sad content of the film, but the quality made me physically ill. Don't waste your time on it. The only reason why I gave it that one star is because the book deserves ten. The actors in this movie couldn't work out of a paper bag. I kept screaming "Where's Keanu!?" and "Why! Why!" I wish they wouldn't of made "Beans..." into a film, because this book is the one book I wanted to turn into a movie. And I think that with my minimal movie making skills, mine would look like "Citizen Kane" compared to this elementary garbage.

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