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Starring Jessica Lange & Sam Shepard.
Sep 29, 1984 · 1h 45m. IMDb RATING. 6.6 /10. 2.2K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Play trailer 1:50. 1 Video. 18 Photos. Drama. 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. Director. Richard Pearce. Writer.
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- Drama
- Richard Pearce
- 1984-09-29
Country. (film) 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.
The opening moments of "Country" show a woman frying hamburgers and wrapping them up and sending them out to her men, working in the fields. The movie is using visuals to announce its intentions: It wants to observe the lives of its characters at the level of daily detail and routine, and to avoid pulling back into "Big Country" cliché shots. It succeeds. This movie observes ordinary American ...
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 take their ...
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- Drama
- PG
