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Director:

Tony Bill

Writer (WGA):

Peter Silverman (written by)

Contact:

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Release Date:

4 June 2000 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama more

Tagline:

It's Her Turn To Fight Back.

Plot:

A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike. | add synopsis

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations more

User Comments:

Shameless "Norma Rae" ripoff, riddled with drecky stereotypes more (14 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Holly Hunter ... Ruby Kincaid

Stellan Skarsgård ... Warren Jakopovich

Ted Levine ... Silas Kincaid
Wayne Robson ... Tug Jones
Alex House ... Buddy Kincaid
Charlotte Arnold ... Lucinda Kincaid
Ker Wells ... Little Lee

Jennifer Irwin ... Mary Ball

Rufus Crawford ... Bill Worthington
Cliff Saunders ... Lawrence Perkins
Deborah Pollitt ... Ora Perkins

Tim Burd ... Dillard Ball (as Timothy Burd)
Tom Harvey ... Jerry Selvey
Reginald Doresa ... Bronce Breckenridge
Helen Hughes ... Aunt Melva Jones
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Harlan County (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:

104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1 more

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 52nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2000) (TV) more


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8 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
Shameless "Norma Rae" ripoff, riddled with drecky stereotypes, 29 November 2005
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Author: hrhqueene from California, United States

As the granddaughter of a coal miner who was also a union organizer, and having been born and brought up in Appalachia, I was highly interested in the theme of this film. What a huge disappointment. Holly Hunter grunts and twangs like a deranged Daisy Mae, almost unintelligibly at times. Her accent is not at all mountain, but cartoonish. One could expect much more from an Academy Award winner.

Also, it might come as a huge shock to some, but people in Kentucky and West Virginia have had electricity, running water, and indoor facilities for at least 50 years now. Not only that, but--hold onto your seat, now--most women there don't go around dressed like a Dorothea Lange photograph (and didn't in 1973, either!); nor do the children all go barefoot; nor does everyone live in rusted-out shacks.

For a much more realistic picture of mine families, try "October Sky". The story is set earlier, in the 50's; but you can see that even then, people had more semblance of civilization that the dismal one-step-up-from-HeeHaw that "Harlan County War" portrays.

A strange irony that this film, supposedly sympathetic to the plight of families suffering because of corporate greed, was shot in British Columbia during the film crew strike. Shame on them. Shame on me, too, for wasting money and irreplaceable time on this letdown.

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