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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Title: Harlan County War (TV Movie 2000)
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Cast
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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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miners' strike | kentucky | united mine workers association | miner | mine safety |Taglines:
It's Her Turn To Fight Back.Genres:
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EnglishRelease Date:
4 June 2000 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Harlan County See more »Filming Locations:
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaCompany Credits
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Lowest-class working people go on strike for better conditions. Outside agitator helps foment discontent. Working class wife expands personally by taking part in the struggle. To a large extent this sounds like, and is, a 2000 remake of NORMA RAE, which is graced with a fine lead by Holly Hunter, and looks quite good considering it is set in Harlan County, KY, but filmed "on location in Toronto, Canada." Stellan Skarsgard as the labor organizer, and Ted Levine as Hunter's miner husband also deliver good performances, and entire cast is fine though most roles are smallish vs Hunter. Nice musical score.
This film takes off from the documentary HARLAN COUNTY USA and has plot resemblances to NORMA RAE. The slant is unabashedly left of center and the performances and details ring true (except the dogs don't look like mountain dogs to me). Hunter is given a fairly brief, mostly-in-the-dark seminude scene that I found a little gratuitous (possibly the first time those words have ever crossed my lips). I didn't catch the credit, this viewing, for the little guy (he's about as short as Hunter) who plays her father, but he looks exactly right as a used-up coal miner and might have been cast right off the street in my neighborhood.
Picture is set in the 1970s, with Nixon references and talk of wage scales that will sound unbelievable today. Sneak previewed on Showtime the night of 5/29/2000, this is a commendable fictionalization of the story told even more dramatically in HARLAN COUNTY USA, and easily the best premium cable original film I've seen in a long time. Martin Ritt would have made it even better but he wouldn't have been ashamed of this version. And which side are *you* on, buddy?