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.
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| Holly Hunter | ... | Ruby Kincaid | |
| Stellan Skarsgård | ... | Warren Jakopovich | |
| Ted Levine | ... | Silas Kincaid | |
| Wayne Robson | ... | Tug Jones | |
| Alex House | ... | Buddy Kincaid | |
| Charlotte Arnold | ... | Lucinda Kincaid | |
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Ker Wells | ... | Little Lee |
| Jennifer Irwin | ... | Mary Ball | |
| Rufus Crawford | ... | Bill Worthington | |
| Cliff Saunders | ... | Lawrence Perkins | |
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Deborah Pollitt | ... | Ora Perkins |
| Timothy Burd | ... | Dillard Ball | |
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Tom Harvey | ... | Jerry Selvey |
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Reginald Doresa | ... | Bronce Breckenridge |
| Helen Hughes | ... | Aunt Melva Jones | |
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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.
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4 June 2000 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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I take issue with those who have said this is not an accurate depiction of Appalachian coal country, though I will admit it's probably more representative of parts of West Virginia than Kentucky. I spent 14 years in WV, my wife is from WV and her father grew up in a coal camp.
My wife's grandmother didn't have running water or indoor plumbing until the '70's (heck members of *my* family didn't have indoor plumbing until the late '60's and I grew up in PA!).
I have known many people in WV who sound very much like Holly Hunter in this film, and even dated a woman from the coalfields of southern WV with a similar accent.
The geography also reminds me of WV (though admittedly it wasn't filmed there).
All-in-all an excellent film, and it's hard to believe it represents events as recent as the '70's! We've (until recently) come a long way and we need films like this to remind us how bad things recently were and could soon be again (or worse re: last year's Utah mine disaster).