Sweet Dreams (1985 film)
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Times are hard, and times are now. This isn't a movie about symbolic farmers living in some colorful American past. It is about the farm policies of the Carter and Reagan administrations, and how the movie believes that those policies are resulting in the destruction of family farms.
1984's Country is a powerful, building, and earthy drama. As something that chronicles a family whose farm ownership is being threatened by the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA), Country is extremely well-acted, old-worded, Reagan Era-ed, and authentic.
Country. Jewell (Jessica Lange) and Gil Ivy (Sam Shepard) run a farm in Iowa that has been in the family for generations. The Ivy's make enough to get by until two devastating events threaten to ...
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- Richard Pearce
- PG
- Jessica Lange
Sep 29, 1984 · With Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley, Matt Clark. Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.
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- Drama
- Richard Pearce
- 1984-09-29
Country is a 1984 American drama film which follows the trials and tribulations of a rural family as they struggle to hold on to their farm during the trying economic times experienced by family farms in 1980s America. The film was written by William D. Wittliff, and stars real-life couple Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard.
Sep 25, 2018 · At its heart of hard realism, Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange’s real-life chemistry infuses the drama with a timeless quality that never feels less than emotionally true.
Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to ...
