When ailing Kansas wheat farmer Elroy "Bud" Burkhardt (Dennis Weaver) discovers he has lung cancer, the fiercely independent man grudgingly agrees to hire a laborer to help him harvest the season's crops. He finds a most unlikely candidate for the job -- hitchhiker Larry Koenig (Kurt Russell), an indolent New York model rendered unemployable by a facial injury. But for Koenig to become a viable farmhand, Burkhardt will have to teach him the value of an honest day's work.
When ailing Kansas wheat farmer Elroy "Bud" Burkhardt (Dennis Weaver) discovers he has lung cancer, the fiercely independent man grudgingly agrees to hire a laborer to help him harvest the season's crops. He finds a most unlikely candidate for the job -- hitchhiker Larry Koenig (Kurt Russell), an indolent New York model rendered unemployable by a...
