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American Dream
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American Dream is a 1990 documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple and produced by Kopple and Arthur Cohn. The work originates from the United Kingdom and the United States and was released on October 6, 1990. It has a runtime of 98 minutes and was distributed by Miramax and Netflix via video on demand. The production involved companies including Cabin Creek Films, Catholic Communication Campaign, and Channel 4 Television.
The film’s main subject is a strike, with keywords including labor, labor strike, labor union, and Iowa. Michael Small composed the music. American Dream received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film and is recognized in the Academy Award Best Documentary collection. It holds a review score of 8.8 out of 10 and 100%, with an IMDb rating of 7.7 and a TMDb vote average of 7.313. The film generated revenue of 269823.
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Film · TMDB
7.3When 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.
Themes
- strike
- iowa
- labor
- labor strike
- labor union
- woman director
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- strike
- Director
- Barbara Kopple
- Composer
- Michael Small
- Producer
- Barbara Kopple
- Duration
- 98
- FilmAffinity ID
- 576713
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.miramax.com/movie/american-dream
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- publication date
- 1990-01-01
- title
- American Dream
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 100%
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