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    The Milagro Beanfield War

    R1988 · Comedy drama · 1h 57m

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  1. The Milagro Beanfield War is a 1988 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Redford, based on a novel by John Nichols.The movie features an ensemble cast including Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford, Sônia Braga, Julie Carmen, James Gammon, Melanie Griffith, John Heard, Carlos Riquelme, Daniel Stern, Chick Vennera, and Christopher Walken.

    • March 18, 1988 (United States)
    • Moctesuma Esparza, Gary Hendler, Charles Mulvehill, Robert Redford
  2. Mar 18, 1988 · A comedy drama fantasy film directed by Robert Redford and starring Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga and others. It tells the story of a water rights conflict between farmers and developers in a New Mexico town.

    • (6.6K)
    • Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
    • Robert Redford
    • 1988-03-18
  3. A comedy-drama film directed by Robert Redford about a water-rights conflict in a New Mexico town. Critics and audiences are divided on its quality, with mixed reviews and ratings.

    • (120)
    • Robert Redford
    • R
    • Sonia Braga
  4. A movie about a water-rights conflict between farmers and developers in a New Mexico town. Joe Mondragon illegally irrigates his bean field and sparks a small war with the help of activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer Charlie Bloom.

  5. A fable of a small town in New Mexico where a local farmer rebels against a land developer and faces the consequences of his actions. The film explores the dilemmas of many regional cultures in the US, such as language, custom and heritage, and the tension between progress and tradition. The reviewer praises the film's love and joy, but criticizes its confusion and ambivalence.

  6. The Milagro Beanfield War is a novel by American writer John Nichols, published in 1974 by Random House. It is the first book in Nichols's New Mexico Trilogy and is set in the early 1970s in Milagro, New Mexico and its environs, including Chamisaville and Donya Luz. Developer Ladd Devine, backed by town and state leaders, seeks to turn the ...

  7. The Milagro Beanfield War establishes a tone of buoyant magic realism as an old sombrero-wearing campesino (Robert Carricart) dances out of the night in slo-mo, concertina in hand, through the dawn and into a one-room house for his daily pre-breakfast dialogue with its -- and the town's -- oldest inhabitant, Amarante (Carlos Riquelme). Amarante ...

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