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Summary: 5 Stars
Jewell and Gil Ivy, who run a small farm in Iowa that has been in Jewell's family for several generations; her father Otis lives with them, along with their three children. While the work is hard and the earnings are slim, the Ivys have been able to get by, like most of their neighbors, until a one-two punch threatens to devastate the Iowa farming community. First, a tornado devastates the area, then the Farmers Home Administration calls in the loans on most of the farmers in the area, which they are in no position to repay. With thirty days to voluntarily liquidate their property, the Ivys, like most of their friends and neighbors, are desperate to find a way to hold on to their property, and when the stress causes Gil to buckle, Jewell must step in to keep the clan going. A well acted insight into the farming crisis of the mid 80s. A very strong and entertaining drama.Movie Review: Most realistic film ever made.
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a farmer and have been watching this film since it was released. I was very young when it was released and have been impressed ever since. I have studied it and every aspect is as it would be in every day farm life. I have been to where it was filmed and everything is as it was on the film. This film gives wonderful insight to the tremendous destruction that the Liberal spending Carter administration put on our country and our conservative, value minded farms. When Reagan had to put things back in order, farmers were affected. This film changed farming forever when it made aware of what was going on at that time. I give all praises to all who worked on this film. Thank you and I recommend it to everyone.Movie Review: A testiment to what our goverment did to our farmers.
Summary: 5 Stars
Having grown up in the heartland at this particular time this movie hits home to me. The scenery is beautiful. Great acting from all in this movie portraying how our goverment put so many family farms on the block. Farms that had been around for generations. Destroying what so many had worked a lifetime to build. A story that seems top keep repeating in this country to this day! I highly recommend this film and the hard to find George Winston soundtrack if you can find it.Movie Review: Life On The Farm
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie depicted what happened to so many farmers in the 1980's when interest rates went so high that it was impossible to survive if there was any debt against what you owned. Jessica Lange of course, was brilliant as the all-suffering farm wife and Sam Shepard as the husband who could not accept that there was no support from "the bank". It is the heart-warming, but flawed depiction of a family coming together in the hard times to save their way of life.Movie Review: This is my family's story too
Summary: 5 Stars
This should be part of American history courses. The acting is incredible - no surprise given the actors. Incredibly realistic, I was teary thinking about how this very thing happened to my family, and so many other neighbors, too. And the music. I wish the soundtrack was still available.